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    SubjectRe: [PATCH]: allow notsc option for buggy cpus
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    > > Intel are being remarkably reluctant on the documentation front.  We have
    > > the AMD speed change docs, but the intel ones (chipset not cpu based
    > > primarily) don't seem to be publically available. In fact the 815M manual
    > > looks like someone quite pointedly went through and removed the relevant
    > > material before publication
    >
    > Isn't that one of the things that the ACPI is for ?
    > Aren't we supposed to use ACPI for this ?

    If you want to trust a large in kernel interpreter of binary only interpreter
    code from a BIOS vendor be my guest. Im also not sure ACPI will give us the
    notifications we need, even in the cases where it actually works.

    Alan

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