Re: Question about kernel naming scheme
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:26:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote (1.00):
> So... anyone know what tsc means?
Time Stamp Counter. An instruction was added in the Intel Pentium line
called RDTSC, which you can use for high resolution timing, performance
monitoring, etc.
>From what I can tell, if you have a 586 class CPU that supports the
RDTSC instruction, you're better off with the tsc kernel, otherwise
you'll be fine without it. From reading the kernel's Configure.help,
however, it looks like if you have a Pentium Classic, Pentium MMX, AMD
K5, K6, K6-3d, or Cyrix III you have this instruction.
M
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