Re: 6x86 recognition

[Trever Adams]

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> The gettimeofday/rdtsc has been "fixed" by the sledgehammer approach.  The
> TSC is permanently disabled in Cx686MX's.  The kernel will use the
> slow_gettimeoffset function, since the current time code cannot handle the
> (arguably broken) suspension of the TSC.  The Jumbo patch is available to
> fix this on 2.0.x (with many other goodies thrown in).
*snip*
> 
>         http://gwyn.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/index.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rafael

I thought the TSC problem was fixed in the MII family of Cyrix chips. 
If so, does this sledgehammer approach take this course of action with
the MII?  I ask this because I have a PPro 200 ad work, takes 2 seconds
for a ping reply, Cyrix MII-300 (Also at work) takes 3-7 (Average of 4
or 5 being the answer).  If I remember correctly the time functions are
used in networking, and that could explain the difference.  The hardware
in the Cyrix is much better than in the PPro (except networking and
hdrive.  They are the same, hard drive is just larger on the Cyrix and
no DMA on Cyrix).

Trever

P.S. 2.0.35 is what they run.