Re: REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs

[Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>]

Hi,

Andi Kleen:
> > It is a "CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03".
> 
> Was that on that system? I guess it could be checked for and TSC 
> be forced off. It sounds like a real CPU bug however.
> 
Board problem? After all, it has some very noxious DMI entries:

System Information
        Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
        Product Name: Nocona/Tumwater Customer Reference Board
        Version: Revision A0
        Serial Number: 0123456789
        UUID: 0A0A0A0A-0A0A-0A0A-0A0A-0A0A0A0A0A0A

... all of which are patently *wrong*.

You'd have to ask the people from Tyan what the hell they were smoking
when they blindly copied the Intel data.

At least the different CPU speed issue is a known bug, fixed by a
BIOS update. I'll postpone that until we have a working kernel fix,
for obvious reasons.

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