From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 13:46:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9A614BE2 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (adsl-216-62-157-60.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.05.24.18.28.p7) with ESMTP id <0FHG00C5I9OIDD@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:45:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA30220; Thu, 02 Sep 1999 15:48:39 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 15:48:38 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric In-reply-to: <37CEE18B.3495C9A5@tdx.co.uk> To: Karl Pielorz Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <19990902154838.M26218@holly.dyndns.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <37CEB68D.848BDAF8@sftw.com> <19990902154111.A15805@tabby.kudra.com> <19990902154111.K26218@holly.dyndns.org> <37CEE18B.3495C9A5@tdx.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 02, 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Chris Costello wrote: > > No, since it would just be useless bloat in the source tree. > > If we must have it, how about a port? - I'm definitely for the "this isn't a > good idea" crowd, When I was using Linux, I thought it was 'cute'... I've > grown up a bit since then... I don't think the local Ports Wraith would be amazingly happy with a port which modifies identcpu.c, which is part of the kernel. > -Kp -- |Chris Costello |Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers. - Tom Lehrer `-------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message