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I was wondering whether such draconian steep is necessary/justified in
{Linux 2.1.105}:net/core/profile.c

__initfunc(int net_profile_init(void)){
[...]
printk("Evaluating net profiler cost ...");
[...]
if (!(boot_cpu_data.x86_capability & 16)) {
panic("Sorry, you CPU does not support tsc. I am dying...\n");
return -1;

As I think it could just disable profiling (at worst case) instead
of using panic().

The box would panic on me, when trying to boot 2.1.105. I'm not sure if
this above is justifed. Was the Cyrix PR-200MMX the one with broken TSC?
Beside that I don't think I did enabled Halt-On-Suspend explictly.

[root@styx /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu family : 6
model : 6x86MX 2.5x Core/Bus Clock
vendor_id : CyrixInstead
stepping : 0 rev 4
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 pge cmov mmx
bogomips : 166.30


Finally, a while ago there was talk about fixing the TSC stuff, there
was some patches floating around. .. but are there any plans to integrate
it into kernel?


-Adam

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