Re: [Etherboot-developers] I've just checked and ...

[Ronald G M. <rmi...@la...>]

On 29 Aug 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote:

> That certainly looks like a piece of it.  Given the rough granularity
> of i/o to port 0x80.  I would rather calibrate the counter on
> something more precise, if I had the option.

I wish I could think of something.

> Does Linux need a special patch to run on the smartcore?  Or how does
> it calibrate the tsc?

You know, I don't know. We just diagnosed the problem and applied this
fix, and linux seemed to be happy. I never looked at this. Now you've made
me curious :-)

ron