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From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CPU frequency shifting "problems"
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 04:12:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB3DC79.1030502@stesmi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15mlwM-0005g5-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Hey.

>>For example, the Intel "SpeedStep" CPU's are completely broken under
>>Linux, and real-time will advance at different speeds in DC and AC modes,
>>because Intel actually changes the frequency of the TSC _and_ they don't
>>document how to figure out that it changed.
> 
> The change is APM or ACPI initiated. Intel won't tell anyone anything
> useful but Microsoft have published some of the required intel confidential
> information which helps a bit

Did you just say that Microsoft actually went and did something right 
for a change? As in publishing specs I mean.

*Stands in awe*

:)

// Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-28  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-25 17:49 Locking comment on shrink_caches() Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 19:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 18:40   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 20:15     ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 19:02       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 20:29         ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 21:00           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-25 21:55             ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 22:16               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-25 22:28                 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 16:40                   ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:25                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 17:40                       ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:44                         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 18:01                           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-26 18:01                         ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 20:20                         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-26 20:24                           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-26 17:43                       ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-26 18:24                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-26 18:48                           ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-26 18:58                             ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-26 17:45                       ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 17:50                       ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:59                         ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 18:07                           ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 18:09                           ` Padraig Brady
2001-09-26 18:22                             ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 18:24                           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 18:40                             ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 19:12                               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 12:22                                 ` CPU frequency shifting "problems" Padraig Brady
2001-09-27 12:44                                   ` Dave Jones
2001-09-27 23:23                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28  0:55                                     ` Alan Cox
2001-09-28  2:12                                       ` Stefan Smietanowski [this message]
2001-09-28  8:55                                     ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-28 16:11                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28 20:29                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-28 22:24                                           ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-26 19:04                             ` Locking comment on shrink_caches() George Greer
2001-09-26 18:59                         ` George Greer
2001-09-26 23:26                       ` David S. Miller
2001-09-27 12:10                         ` Alan Cox
2001-09-27 15:38                           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 17:44                             ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-27 19:41                           ` David S. Miller
2001-09-27 22:59                             ` Alan Cox
2001-09-25 22:03             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 20:24       ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-25 20:28         ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 21:05           ` Andrew Morton
2001-09-25 21:48             ` David S. Miller
     [not found]         ` <200109252215.f8PMFDa02034@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>
2001-09-25 22:26           ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 17:42             ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-25 22:01       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 22:03         ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 22:59           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 20:40     ` Josh MacDonald
2001-09-25 19:25       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 21:57   ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-28  1:24 CPU frequency shifting "problems" Grover, Andrew
2001-09-28 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-29  0:37   ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-28 22:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-01  9:28 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-28 22:47 Grover, Andrew
2001-09-29  1:10 ` Gerhard Mack
     [not found] <8FB7D6BCE8A2D511B88C00508B68C2081971E4@orsmsx102.jf.intel.com>
2001-09-28 23:09 ` Alan Cox

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