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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 18:11:45 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, smp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: No CPU speed identification in CPU case?
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>1. Non-SMP case:
>
>	CPU: Pentium Pro (232.67-MHz 686-class CPU)
>
>2. SMP case:
>
>	CPU: Pentium Pro (686-class CPU)
>
>Is there some problem with identifying the CPU speed in the SMP case?
>Just wondering.  Thanks!

The speed is kept in the global variable i586_ctr_freq, and everything
related to this variable is disabled for SMP, since it needs to be
per-CPU, or maybe an average, and code to initialize and use it per-cpu
hasn't been written.

Bruce