TSC instead of ACPI: powerd doesn't work anymore (to be expected?)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20051101080018.R18382 at fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes:

>One nice thing about the Linux TSC model, despite its limitations, is that 
>it provides a middle ground between incrementing the clock in ticks and 
>providing a more continuous measure of time, by allowing interpolation 
>between ticks.

Which is also exactly what we do.

The only real difference is that Linux trusts the TSC in cases where
we don't.

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