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Re: bogomips/speed ratio and Power PC chip



hello people..

* Nirmal Govind <nirmalg@asu.edu> [2004-06-07 10:31 +0200]:
> 
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >On those recent G4 models, the bogomips should be approx. equal to
> >the frequency. The reason, it's not on your case is that the CPU is
> >really running at half speed. The firmware is doing that and the
> >code for controlling the CPU speed properly for those new models
> >isn't in yet. It's beeing worked on though and should be ready
> >real soon.
> 
> Thanks a lot Ben.. this is very encouraging news.. will look forward 
> to the new code.

you might actually take a look at this and test it:
http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/200406/msg00024.html
http://www.toojays.net/~toojays/misc/7447a_cpufreq_20040605.patch

hth,
 sebastian
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