Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: CPU frequency shifting "problems" | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 28 Sep 2001 14:29:45 -0600 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> What does exist is the bus clock (well, a multiple of it, but you get the > idea), and that one is stable. I bet PCI devices don't like to be randomly > driven at frequencies "somewhere between 12 and 33MHz" depending on load ;)
I doubt they would like it but it is perfectly legal (PCI spec..) to vary the pci clock, depending upon load.
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