From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 1 14:10: 4 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 72CF437B718 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f31LA2x32017; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104012110.f31LA2x32017@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: i386/26272: [PATCH] Adds a sysctl to get the cpu frequency Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR i386/26272; it has been noted by GNATS. 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 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