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Date:      Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:55:46 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TSC instead of ACPI: powerd doesn't work anymore (to be expected?)
Message-ID:  <20051029195546.GA39253@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <30595.1130493297@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20051028112833.7vs98zpvy808s04k@netchild.homeip.net> <30595.1130493297@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:54:57AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In general, if you run powerd to change your cpu clock (= TSC
> frequency), using TSC as timecounter is _not_ what you want to do.

The issue is TSC is not guarnetted to be power setting invarient.
Meaning if you change the frequence of the CPU thru power management, the
rate the TSC counts can change.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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