> If you are using amd76x_pm boot with "notsc", ditto for that matter
> on dual athlons with APM or ACPI in some cases. In fact I wish people
> would stop using the tsc for clock timing altogether. It simply doesn't
> work on a lot of modern systems
But its awfully nice for low-impact high-resolution timestamps.
Maybe someday hardware manufacturers will give us a monotonic GHz+ clock that is
synced across all cpus and is cheap to read...
Chris
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