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

[David Xu]

David O'Brien wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:34:57PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
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>>I don't have the message at hand. I just had time to write the mail, but I
>>don't have my laptop with me to reproduce the message. But it's easy to
>>reproduce, just take a PC which is able to make use of powerd and switch to
>>using TSC as the timecounter.
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>What is the motivation to use the TSC as a timecounter?
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TSC is faster than any others, on many systems, so-called ACPI-fast timer is
really a slow chip, at least far slower than reading from RAM, manufactories
just lie on this.

Regards,
David Xu