Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

Dave Jones
2005-12-30T04:02:51Z

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:57:40PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
> >
> >Okay, I'm complaining: /proc/cpuinfo is no longer correct
> >for my Pentium-M notebook, as ov 2.6.15-rc7. Now it reports
> >a cpu speed of approx 800Mhz for a 2.0Mhz Pentium-M.
>
> 2.0GHz, not Mhz! (blush)
>
> Prior to -rc7, /proc/cpuinfo would scale according to the
> current speedstep of the CPU. Now it seems stuck at the
> lowest setting for some reason.

Ok, if the scaling doesn't work any more, that's a bug rather
than an intentional breakage. More details please? dmesg ?
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq contents? What were you using
to do the scaling previously? (An app, or ondemand)

Dave