Dendrobatus Azureus<p>Jumping in deep immediately</p><p>OS Linux<br>Kernel 6.x<br>found workaround for hardware errors on critical timer tsc</p><p>snippet from dmesg</p><p>[ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT<br>[ 0.000000] tsc: Detected 1796.607 MHz processor</p><p>snippet two</p><p>[ 0.068905] AMD-Vi: Using global IVHD EFR:0x206d73ef22254ade, EFR2:0x0<br>[ 0.069804] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1<br>[ 0.074120] clocksource: tsc-early: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x19e5a467a58, max_idle_ns: 440795257552 ns<br>[ 0.074127] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 3593.21 BogoMIPS (lpj=1796607)<br>[ 0.074141] Zenbleed: please update your microcode for the most optimal fix</p><p>line [ 0.074141] clearly states that my microcode is not updated (not related to tsc)</p><p>[ 0.210124] TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#8]:<br>[ 0.210124] Measured 2808 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.<br>[ 0.210126] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed<br>[ 0.210176] #1 #3 #5 #7 #9 #11 #13 #15</p><p>I added tsc=unstable to the boot options in grub, so from what I read here the parameter was passed to the kernel? Can someone please verify for me if this output states that?</p><p>The warning I get is that the BIOS of this machine is broken! and that the option tsc=unstable will work around that massive bug</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bash</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/csh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>csh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ksh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ksh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kernel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/parameters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parameters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/grub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POST</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/UEFI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UEFI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/dmesg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dmesg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Boot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/options" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>options</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POSIX</span></a></p>