Low bogomips rate on new iBook
Alle 16:46, giovedì 3 giugno 2004, Sebastian Henschel ha scritto:
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> running at half the frequency, for instance. :)
> a guy on linuxppc-dev found out how to run with high freq:
> boot into openfirmware and issue the following commands:
>
> dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4@0
> set-dfs-high
> mac-boot
>
> then boot normally into linux. you have to do that _every_ time you turn
> on the machine, though. better wait for benh to implement the
> aforementioned steps in the kernel. :)
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I think I have the same problem, the CPU running slow. The kernel is a vanilla
2.6.6. Can I issue the same commands or it's not reccomended? I don't know
what to do. Here is my /proc/cpuinfo:
danieli@aibuk:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock : 1066MHz
revision : 1.1 (pvr 8003 0101)
bogomips : 530.43
machine : PowerBook6,5
motherboard : PowerBook6,5 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (iBook G4)
pmac flags : 0000000a
L2 cache : 512K unified
memory : 256MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
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