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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: PATCH:  Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable.
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:59:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090205195945.GE3129@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498B42C5.7010905@candelatech.com>


* 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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05 19:49 PATCH: Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable Ben Greear
2009-02-05 19:59 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-02-05 20:38   ` Ben Greear
2009-02-05 21:02     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-05 21:18 ` Frans Pop
2009-02-06 14:36 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-02-06 17:52   ` Ben Greear
2009-02-06 19:40     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-06 23:24     ` Jiri Kosina

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