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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:07:00 -0400
From:      Alan Clegg <abc@firehouse.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch to allow TSC with APM
Message-ID:  <20000418140700.A23152@ecto.greenpeas.org>
In-Reply-To: <17283.956080869@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:01:09PM %2B0200
References:  <200004181747.CAA24371@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> <17283.956080869@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Out of the ether, Poul-Henning Kamp spewed forth the following bitstream:

> >> I'd like to recommend the following patches.  Adding the option
> >> "CLK_USE_TSC_ANYWAY" allows my laptop to use the TSC even though it
> >> is "flakey".  This option should not be set by default.
> >
> >I saw the same kind of patches and my laptop has this w/o any problems
> >for long time.
> >I'd like to commit submitted patch 2 or 3 days later if no objections.

> It would be nice to have some kind of understanding why the tsc is
> better than the i8254 before we kludge it...

Any ideas on what would be needed to go forward with that?

AlanC
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                                      \             Alan B. Clegg
         Just because I can            \          abc@firehouse.net
        does not mean I will.           \     <http://www.firehouse.net/>;
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