Re: [PATCH] boot time parameter to turn of TSC usage

[Andrew Morton]

Stephen Hemminger <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> For machines that don't want to cooperate and have bad TSC counter and/or
> change CPU frequency without change support.
> 
> This fixes the problem on Jerry Cooperstein's PIII laptop.
> Could be useful for other people and tech support situations.

Is there no way in which this can be auto-detected?

> +__setup("notsclock", tsc_noclock_setup);

People have recently worked to make Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
relatively up-to-date.  Please try to remember to keep it in sync...