Re: [PATCH][2.5] notsc option needs some attention/TLC

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
09 Nov 2002 19:10:13 +0000

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 18:09, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > 2.4 was modified to printk a message that TSC was not disabled. This
> > does confuse people
>
> This is all very confusing, notsc isnn't supposed to work with cpus with
> TSCs?

User boots TSC only kernel
User gets problem
User reads docs and says "notsc"
User still has problem
User confused.

In the TSC only case printing a message that the TSC disable was not
possible is IMHO good

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