Re: bogomips/speed ratio and Power PC chip

[Luis Sanjuan <lj.sanjuan@ya.com>]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 01:46:45PM -0700, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> 
> 
> Luis Sanjuan wrote:
> >FYI below is my cpuinfo (kernel version: 2.6.6)
> >
> >At the same clock freq my bogomips is clearly higher.
> >Do you have a 2.6 kernel ?
> >
> >processor       : 0
> >cpu             : 7457, altivec supported
> >clock           : 1333MHz
> >revision        : 1.1 (pvr 8002 0101)
> >bogomips        : 1328.52
> >machine         : PowerBook5,3
> 
> Hi..  this is interesting.. is this the new 12" PB? It says 1.33GHz 
> but the machine is 5,3?? Mine's a 6,4 .. should these be different 
> if it's the same machine? 

Hi Nirmal

My machine is a PowerBook (AlBook) G4 17''.

> And yes, I'm running a 2.6.6 kernel. What 
> option did you choose for the processor in the kernel configuration? 
> 6xx?
> 

Same kernel config option here. AFAIK all these models needs it. 
I've pointed out the kernel version, because I saw lower bogomips with 
2.4 series.

I think the problem has been described by Ben in his reply.