-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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... - -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | | | ! "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not | ! hereditary..." | ! Dr. Dean Adell(sp?) ! +------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8P0KcjTz5dS9Us5wRAr1wAJ9gaYKXC80R7Jdx3Akez2IDi3ZVqgCcCIPQ pCHmRigxrG4cxnhigz9HEbw= =pjGx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
