Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:55:09 +0200 | | Subject | Re: REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs | | From | Matthias Urlichs <> |
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Hi,
Arjan van de Ven: > if the hardware side is different *speed*.. then a tsc sync ain't going > to work... sure we write to it but it's immediately out of sync again > No, it's in fact the same speed -- the BIOS just reads it wrongly.
I checked: the two date values do advance at the same rate.
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