From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jun 18 18:21: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91ACB37B401; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dd@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from dd@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5J1L5Y68567; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dd) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:21:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Message-Id: <200106190121.f5J1L5Y68567@freefall.freebsd.org> To: mux@qualys.com, dd@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/26272: Adds a sysctl to get the cpu frequency Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Synopsis: Adds a sysctl to get the cpu frequency State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: dd State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 18 18:20:48 PDT 2001 State-Changed-Why: From audit-trail: From: Poul-Henning Kamp To: mux@qualys.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/26272: [PATCH] Adds a sysctl to get the cpu frequency Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:07:14 +0200 Weeeeelllll... We already have that in machdep.tsc_freq if we trust it to be constant. If we don't trust it to be constant, any reporting is at best a guess and we might as well not report a random number... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message