Re: Patch to allow TSC with APM

2000-04-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 18-Apr-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > It would be nice to have some kind of understanding why the tsc is > better than the i8254 before we kludge it... > Unless I misread completely one nice side effect of this would be to enable pcaudio on APM machines. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Patch to allow TSC with APM

2000-04-18 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : If it is because the bios fiddles the frequency all the time we : should maybe understand the APM bios better. There were issues with some APM BIOSes not resetting this on resume, but I think that we properly store/restore the state now.

Re: Patch to allow TSC with APM

2000-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Clegg writes: >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 o

Re: Patch to allow TSC with APM

2000-04-18 Thread Alan Clegg
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 sam

Re: Patch to allow TSC with APM

2000-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mitsuru IWASAKI writes : >Hi, > >> 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

Re: Patch to allow TSC with APM

2000-04-18 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, > 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