Re: Question about kernel naming scheme
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On Friday 11 January 2002 01:44 pm, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> 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.
Ah. Thanks. This old dog is a Cyrix II, so I'd better use the
plain old -386 image. You'd think that there would be a plain
old -586 image. Oh, well. That's what kernel-package is for...
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