On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Paul Flinders wrote:
> Mr. James W. Laferriere writes (upside down):
> > On 25 Sep 1999, Paul Flinders wrote:
> > > I get this from the Symbios 53c8xx driver in 2.3.18ac8
> > > sym53c875E-0: PCI clock seems too high (37662 KHz).
> > > The bus speed *is* correct as the motherboard is overclocked - I know
> > > not everyone approves and I'm prepared to take the consequenses.
> > > However, if the check was not specifically intended to prevent the
> > > driver working on overclocked boards could I suggest changing the
> > > comparison from 37Mhz to 42Mhz.
> > Hello All , I beleive that a manually setable comparison
> > which overrides the default value for those willing to
> > experiment with Higher clock speeds . .02 JimL
> If it's just a sanity check then it's probably reasonable to make it
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Then why does it (presumably) prevent
people from using there equipment . Otherwise there is no
point in making alot of noise over a simple message .
I still beleive that a manually setable value s/b available,
ie: at boot: or lilo.conf/... time . If it prevents usage .
> 42Mhz (83/2 being 41.5). Some boards do 133 but leave the PCI bus at
> FSB/3 (i.e 44) but I doubt any system will run like that. It may even
> be worth adding a check that it's over 25Mhz.
Spewing a message about it is OK .
> If it's intended to warn/stop overclockers then it should need the
> code to be manually changed.
Why, Not all those overclockers are kernel hackers they may be
hardware geeks . Not everyone in the world knows kernel level
hacking & not everyone who is a kernel hacker knows -every-
idiosyncracy of hardware .
Twyl, JimL
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