Alan Cox wrote: > > Fine. But that is their problem 8). VIA already has documentation for > how to check the speed of a CPU. Intel seem to have NDA'd theirs but I'm > sure they can provide that algorithm easily enough. > If with "speed" you mean "frequency" it's trivial to measure using RDTSC. This measurement can be done in userspace, and is also exported by the kernel into /proc/cpuinfo. -hpa