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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: cpuinfo shows wrong MHz value
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:52:50 +0100
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On Thursday 19 February 2009, Joerg Platte wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009 schrieb Frans Pop:
> > commit ed9cbcd40004904dbe61ccc16d6106a7de38c998
> > Author: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
> > Date:   Tue Nov 20 14:20:21 2007 -0500
> >     Revert "speedstep-lib.c: fix frequency multiplier for Pentium4
> > models 0&1"
> >
> > That would exactly explain the factor 8 of the error.
>
> Yes, looks like thats the reason.

It looks as if http://bugzilla.kernel.org/10968 has a fix for this issue, 
but that that patch never got included in the kernel.

For start of current thread, see: 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1034291?page=last