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[Michael Rasmussen <mir@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:44:28 +0200, Klaus S. Madsen wrote:

> Du ved godt at der er hjælp til de fleste kerne options, ikke?
> 
Jo.
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> 
> The power Management Timer is available on all ACPI-capable, in most cases
> even if ACPI is unusable or blacklisted.
> 
> This timing source is not affected by powermanagement features like
> aggressive processor idling, throttling, frequency and/or voltage scaling,
> unlike the commonly used Time Stamp Counter (TSC) timing source.
> 
> So, if you see messages like 'Losing too many ticks!' in the kernel logs,
> and/or you are using a this on a notebook which does not yet have an HPET,
> you should say "Y" here.
Det havde jeg også læst, men det siger jo ikke hvilken specifik
funktion, den udfylder. Ej heller giver ovenstående information om,
hvorledes den har indflydelse på uret. Hvorfor skal det enables, hvis man
ikke har HPET på sin notebook.

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Michael Rasmussen
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