From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 17:12:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8683B14A2F for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA12616; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990616171310.B15683@cpl.net> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:13:10 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Arcady Genkin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz References: <87btefitux.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <87btefitux.fsf@main.wgaf.net>; from Arcady Genkin on Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 07:55:02PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi all: > > Could somebody comment on the following startup messages: > > FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #2: Thu Mar 11 16:40:53 EST 1999 > root@door.wgaf.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/DOORKERNEL2 > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: i486 DX4 (486-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x480 Stepping=0 > Features=0x3 > > Primarilly I would like to know what speed the CPU is running at. It > couldn't possibly be 1MHz, could it now? ;^) > > I inherited the i486 computer w/o any docs, so I have no idea how fast > it is. The timing frequency doesn't appear at boot-up. I borrowed a > copy of Norton Diagnostics for DOS and ran it from a floppy -- it > reported 102MHz. The DX4 used a 33MHz clock speed, and a 3x multipler, thus 100Mhz. At least I think it did, that seems right seens Norton reports 102mhz. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message