Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 May 1997 19:05:03 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NMI trap revised (was Re: NMI errors in 2.0.30??) |
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Hi,
> That works well until you change something that has side effects. Consider the > Cyrix 5x86/6x86 chips. On the 5x86, you can set some bits and enable/disable the > branch target buffer. This, of course, dramatically affects BogoMips. So, if you > do this, you have to fiddle with a running kernel.
The options I mentioned will be processed before paging gets initialized and probably also before bogomips detection is done.
Martin
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