From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751267AbVKKKRz (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:17:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751268AbVKKKRz (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:17:55 -0500 Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu ([140.142.32.135]:38803 "EHLO mxout5.cac.washington.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751267AbVKKKRy (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:17:54 -0500 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.1.101] (c-24-22-164-139.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [24.22.164.139]) (authenticated authid=lentracy) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id jABAHr7X009035 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:17:53 -0800 Message-ID: <43746FC0.3040702@ee.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:17:36 -0800 From: Leonard Tracy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051019) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Kernel feature question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Since some point in the 2.6.12 kernel there has been a no_timer_check option available to amd64 users to solve a bug which causes the kernel clock on some athlon 64 system to run at 2x speed. I was wondering if it was possible to get this implemented in the i386 architecture too. The code is rather simple and only requires something like 10 lines of code to be added to the io_apic.c file, however it is a pain to add it to every upgrade that becomes available. Who should I ask to get this included as a standard? Leonard Tracy