Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 1998 11:09:05 -0400 (EDT) | From | John Alvord <> | Subject | Re: Cyrix 6x86 |
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Jirka Hanika wrote:
> Let's leave this choice to the Cyrix user. The CPU reports "have TSC", > well, be it so, unless a kernel option says "suspend-on-halt". > The tiny Cyrix specific code to 1) clear the TSC capability flag 2) turn > on suspend-on-halt could probably go into the initialization section, so > that even AMD and Intel users wouldn't complain. The only choice we > *should* make is what the default for a user who doesn't care should be.
Couldn't this condition be detected dynamically by setting a timer interrupt, doing a halt, and then inspecting the TSC before and after?
john alvord
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