Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/26272: [PATCH] Adds a sysctl to get the cpu frequency Message-ID: <200104012110.f31LA2x32017@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/26272; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> 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 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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