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Re: New powerbooks support status



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 :)

Ben.




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