Re: New powerbooks support status
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:23:15PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 18:57 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:39:39PM +0100, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote:
> > >
> > > 3) CPU: I can't use cpufreq, /proc/cpuinfo says:
> > >
> > > processor : 0
> > > cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
> > > clock : 1499MHz
> > > revision : 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
> > > bogomips : 747.52
> > > machine : PowerBook6,8
> > > motherboard : PowerBook6,8 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
> > > detected as : 287 (Unknown Intrepid-based)
> > > pmac flags : 00000008
> > > L2 cache : 512K unified
> > >
> > > Hope this will be updated soon in the kernel, meanwhile we have a 750Mhz
> > > G4 :(
> >
> > Sorry? It says 1499MHz. Where is the 750 which you can read? It is bogomips,
> > which is in fact a bad measure of the speed of a processor.
>
> Well, it's still useful in that case, I _do_ think the processor may be
> running at low speed there. I would expect a 7447A to give a bogomips
> approximately equal to the CPU frequency, well, I think so at least :)
It does so on my pegasos box with the pre-production 7447A module.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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