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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove bogomips from /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:46:17 +0200
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On Monday 31 July 2006 14:59, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Remove bogomips from /proc/cpuinfo.
> It is now really bogus since "timebase-frequency" is shown.

Well, but it's still part of the ABI, right?
How do you determine that there are no broken applications
still relying on it?

	Arnd <><