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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Marc Perkel <mperkel@yahoo.com>, Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem?
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:23:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4803851A.8090206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080414151222.GF7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:35:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> "Any machine with spread spectrum clocking" is a pretty outrageous 
>> claim, since that includes just about 100% of all machines built today 
>> -- it's virtually impossible getting RFI certification without it.
> 
> True, but usually they give you an option to turn it off in the BIOS to
> make the system actually work with things like NTP.
> 
> Maybe I should have said "Any system with spread spectrum enabled".
> 

That, too, is clearly unrealistic, or NTP would be useless except on 
dedicated systems.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-14 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-11 18:27 AMD Quad Core clock problem? Marc Perkel
2008-04-11 18:35 ` H. Willstrand
2008-04-11 18:38 ` Chris Snook
2008-04-11 20:28   ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-11 21:11     ` Chris Snook
2008-04-11 21:36       ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-11 21:38         ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-13 19:35           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-14 15:12             ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14 16:23               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-14 16:29                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15  1:11               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-04-15  1:24                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-15  1:45                   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-04-15  2:40                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-11 21:46         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-04-11 22:09       ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-13  8:19         ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-12  1:04       ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-14 19:16         ` Chris Snook
2008-04-14 20:46           ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-15  6:11           ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-16 21:44             ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-17  6:17               ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-17 18:03                 ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-18 11:56                   ` Bart Van Assche
2008-06-17 21:09           ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-14 13:40       ` Marc Perkel

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