Re: Question about kernel naming scheme

2002-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-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 R

Re: Question about kernel naming scheme

2002-01-11 Thread Mark Ferlatte
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 h

Re: Question about kernel naming scheme

2002-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 01:13 pm, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > kernel-image-2.4.17-586tsc > > What does the tsc stand for? > > I don't know for sure wat 'tsc' stands for, but additional "version > information"

Re: Question about kernel naming scheme

2002-01-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > kernel-image-2.4.17-586tsc > What does the tsc stand for? I don't know for sure wat 'tsc' stands for, but additional "version information" tells you what options are compiled in the kernel or what patches are used to create the kernel. Like this: 2.4