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

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

On 29 Aug 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> > > 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 :-)
>
> If Linux has something fairly universal for x86 we can use that,
> otherwise I want a config option.

If you mean for etherboot, that timer.c code I sent in has two modes op
operation:
- Plain 'ol TIMER2 mode, which is the default
- The other mode, creating timing by POST to port 0x80, enabled by:
	CONFIG_NO_TIMER2

Does that fit the requirement?

ron