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Re: Generic clock framework considerations



On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:23:19PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> AMD Griffin, K8 and older CPUs have their own TSC and they need to be
> synchronized.
> 
> AMD Barcelona and Phenom have a fixed memory clock speed.
> The CPU cores synchronize their TSC with it w/o software interaction.
> The memory clocks between CPU sockets need to be synchronized.

Wrong problem. This is about the device clocks, e.g. adjusting
frequencies of buses dynamically.

Joerg


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