From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263936AbTDNVOT (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:14:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263940AbTDNVOS (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:14:18 -0400 Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.31]:63241 "HELO smtp011.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263936AbTDNVOM (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:14:12 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Dave Jones Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' document. Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:25:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030414193138.GA24870@suse.de> <200304142308.03553.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> <20030414211311.GA11160@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20030414211311.GA11160@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304142325.47325.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 14 April 2003 23:13, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:08:03PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Will it be implemented in future to taint the kernel if CPU is > > overclocked? > > Theoretically possible on most CPUs, but it's not that simple. > - Some CPUs don't encode the necessary bits to tell you their > current multiplier/FSB > - Some CPUs don't encode the necessary info to tell you the speed > the CPU should be running at. I know. That was exactly the reason for I asked. :) -- Regards Michael Buesch. http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft $ cat /dev/zero > /dev/null /dev/null: That's *not* funny! :(