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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: AlphaPC 164SX: Curious about CPU MHz output in dmesg(8)
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:30:41PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> I played with my brand new AlphaPC 164SX today, and I noticed
> one strange thing:
> 
> - the first time I booted it (5.3-BETA1), it displayed the
>   following early in dmesg(8):
>   "Digital AlphaPC 164SX 533 MHz, 266MHz"

Bazzar.


> - the second time I booted it (the same 5.3-BETA1), it displayed:
>   "Digital AlphaPC 164SX 533 MHz, 531MHz"

This is normal.  I sent you a 533 MHz CPU, but of course you never
actually run the CPU exactly at 533 MHz.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)