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Stuart Longland wrote:

>
> So honestly, I don't know what's happening with BogoMIPS. :-)  What I do
> know however, it isn't worth a cracker in terms of benchmarking value. 
> ;-)

I could care less about it as a benchmarking value, but it's used to do 
calibrated udelays.  If mips doesn't need it because it calibrates some 
other way then fine. I suspect not though and we're probably using an 
initial works everywhere value. I don't know though.

Greg Weeks