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SubjectRe: PATCH: (v2) Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable.
Ben Greear wrote:
> Allow user to force TSC to be treated as a stable clock-source.
> On some systems, with ACPI disabled in the BIOS, the
> kernel determines that the TSC is unstable, when it fact
> it appears to be fine. This patch allows one to force
> the kernel to treat the tsc as stable.
>
> This is against 2.6.29-rc3.
>
> Signed-Off-By: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>

I don't think this is a good solution. If the TSC is in fact stable it
would be better to fix the detection to detect it as such. If it's not
then this will cause problems.


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