[coreboot] libpayload TSC dependency

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 17:23:30 CET 2010


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:12 AM, bifferos <bifferos at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> cpu_khz gets exposed as a global, so it's going to be very difficult
> to support CPUs without TSC, without changing the mechanisms some
> payloads use to do timing.  If you don't have TSC, then cpu_khz is
> largely irrelevant, but FILO accesses it directly.


There's no way to just make it relevant? Can't a non-TSC CPU support
something meaningful in that variable?
(I don't know,just asking)

ron




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