On the other hand, the high-res-timers patch also allows one
to use the ACPI pm timer, and ignore TSC completely :)
-g
>
> > Needless to say tsc does not work well on such boxes. Thats why I don't
> > trust the tsc at all in such cases. Since you'll have the nice cyclone
> > timer for the Summit it seems best not to trust it, and on the summit to
> > use the cyclone for udelay as well ?
> >
> > I agree dodgy_tsc needs to change name. Perhaps we actually want
> >
> > int tsc = select_tsc();
> >
> > switch(tsc)
> > {
> > case TSC_CYCLONE:
> > case TSC_PROCESSOR:
> > case TSC_NONE:
> > ..
> > }
>
> Sounds good. I'll re-work my patch and resubmit.
>
> thanks!
> -john
>
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