On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:13 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 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.
if the hardware side is different *speed*.. then a tsc sync ain't going
to work... sure we write to it but it's immediately out of sync again
>
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