From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Woods Subject: Re: Linux detection of processor speed - accurate? Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:04:24 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20031003150225.034167f8@no.incoming.mail> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Miller Cc: Linux-Newbie list At 10/3/2003 02:33 PM -0500, James Miller wrote: >So, who's right - the BIOS report or Linux's bootup record? Can the OS >use the processor's full speed, even though the BIOS doesn't seem to >recognize it? In my experience, yes, the processor can run faster than the BIOS knows how to report the speed. -- Jeff Woods - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs