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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: mistake about the cpufreq?
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:55:08 +0100
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:17:08PM -0400, =E4=BF=9E=E9=A2=90=E8=B6=85 w=
rote:

> So after reading the files in cpu-freq/, I saw it was mentioned in
> user-guide.txt that the scaling_ ones is what the kernel thinks the
> freq is and cpuinfo is the actual freq.
> y can these two be different?

Many systems don't have independently clockable cores. In that case the=
=20
cpu will run at the speed of the highest clocked core.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org