From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: matti.aarnio@zmailer.org (Matti Aarnio)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
anton@linuxcare.com.au (Anton Blanchard),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: allow notsc option for buggy cpus
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:28:37 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14bpyi-0007KN-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010310222146.L23336@mea-ext.zmailer.org> from "Matti Aarnio" at Mar 10, 2001 10:21:46 PM
> > Intel are being remarkably reluctant on the documentation front. We have
> > the AMD speed change docs, but the intel ones (chipset not cpu based
> > primarily) don't seem to be publically available. In fact the 815M manual
> > looks like someone quite pointedly went through and removed the relevant
> > material before publication
>
> Isn't that one of the things that the ACPI is for ?
> Aren't we supposed to use ACPI for this ?
If you want to trust a large in kernel interpreter of binary only interpreter
code from a BIOS vendor be my guest. Im also not sure ACPI will give us the
notifications we need, even in the cases where it actually works.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-10 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-10 0:58 [PATCH]: allow notsc option for buggy cpus Anton Blanchard
2001-03-10 1:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-10 2:09 ` David Huggins-Daines
2001-03-10 11:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-12 15:21 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-03-10 20:21 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-03-10 20:28 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-03-11 14:38 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-03-11 14:49 ` Alan Cox
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E14bpyi-0007KN-00@the-village.bc.nu \
--to=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=anton@linuxcare.com.au \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=matti.aarnio@zmailer.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).