Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:13:59 +0200 | Subject | Re: REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs | From | Matthias Urlichs <> |
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Hi,
Andi Kleen: > > It is a "CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03". > > Was that on that system? I guess it could be checked for and TSC > be forced off. It sounds like a real CPU bug however. > Board problem? After all, it has some very noxious DMI entries:
System Information Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Product Name: Nocona/Tumwater Customer Reference Board Version: Revision A0 Serial Number: 0123456789 UUID: 0A0A0A0A-0A0A-0A0A-0A0A-0A0A0A0A0A0A
... all of which are patently *wrong*.
You'd have to ask the people from Tyan what the hell they were smoking when they blindly copied the Intel data.
At least the different CPU speed issue is a known bug, fixed by a BIOS update. I'll postpone that until we have a working kernel fix, for obvious reasons.
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