Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Disable TSCs on CONFIG_MULTIQUAD

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 01:20, john stultz wrote:
> Anyway, if you really would rather see what you suggested, I'll happily
> change it (I do like the idea of breaking the CONFIG_X86_TSC_UNSYNCED
> notion out of CONFIG_MULTIQUAD).

Not all the other places are "there is no TSC" most of them deal with
the ability to use a TSC. There are other setups where TSC exists but
isnt usable so distinguishing matters

Also there is one case where TSC that doesn't work matters specifically
- you want to turn off RDTSC access from user space to avoid user space
tools having little accidents