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Subject: Re: PATCH - update TSC freq when cpufreq changes it 
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In message <45E4ADCD.4090909@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes:

>Attached is a patch that uses eventhandlers to update the TSC freq.

Question:  are we at a point where the TSC-frequency reported by ACPI
is more precise than our own ad-hoc calibrations ?

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