Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:59:10 +0200 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Subject | Re: [v3] x86/tsc: Unset TSC_KNOWN_FREQ and TSC_RELIABLE flags on Intel Bay Trail SoC |
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 05:53:53PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 04:13:39PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> writes: > > > On 29-01-2020 15:14, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > >>> The only one which is possibly suspicious here is this line: > > >>> > > >>> * 0111: 25 * 32 / 9 = 88.8889 MHz > > >>> > > >>> The SDM says 88.9 MHz for this one. > > > > I trust math more than the SDM :) > > > > >> Anyway it seems need to be fixed as well. > > >> > > >> Btw, why we are mentioning 20 / 6 and 28 / 6 when arithmetically > > >> it's the same as 10 / 3 and 14 / 3? > > > > > > I copied the BYT values from Thomas' email and I guess he did not > > > get around to simplifying them, I'll use the simplified versions > > > for my patch. > > > > Too tired, too lazy :) > > > > Andy, can you please make sure that people inside Intel who can look > > into the secrit documentation confirm what we are aiming for? > > > > Ideally they should provide the X-tal frequency and the mult/div pair > > themself :) > > So, I don't have access to the CPU core documentation (and may be will not be > given), nevertheless I dug a bit to what I have for Cherrytrail. So, the XTAL > is 19.2MHz, which becomes 100MHz and 1600MHz by some root PLL, then, the latter > two frequencies are being used by another PLL to provide a reference clock (*) > to PLL which derives CPU clock.
> *) According to colleagues of mine it's a fixed rate source.
One more thing.
Depends on SKU it may be 400MHz, 320MHz, 200MHz or 333MHz. (I guess these values should be kinda references in the table)
> That's all what I have.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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