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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:59:45 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: PATCH:  Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable.
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* Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:

> Allow user to force TSC as stable clock-source.
> Works around BIOS issues in the FWA-7304 (Via CN700 chipset)
> system, and possibly others.
>
> This is against 2.6.29-rc3.

What 'issues' does that work around, exactly?

	Ingo