tickless kernel works with PIT+TSC on the OLPC boards ( 2.6.20-rc1-rt4)

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:29:02PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 25/12/06 22:01 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > So the attached patch on top of 2.6.20-rc1-rt4 checks if "RTSC counts
> > during suspension", enabling the "is_continuous" flag required by the
> > highres timers subsystem. Comments?
> 
> I'm coming in a bit late - but no complaints here - this patch is definitely
> reasonable.  The only thing that we might add is a check to make sure
> we're really on a Geode - thats a simple additional MSR read.  I think that
> somewhere I have a is_geode() macro - I'll dig it out.

Why not surround it with CONFIG_MGEODELX?

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/571