From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 18:11:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A119716A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:11:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp815.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp815.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67F0043D2F for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:11:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noacks@swbell.net@70.240.205.64 with login) by smtp815.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2005 18:06:54 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3435D6159; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:06:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 64142-11; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:06:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (optimator [192.168.1.11]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA469610A; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:06:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42693D3A.4070405@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:06:50 -0500 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John T. Yocum" References: <42690537.6020506@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <42690537.6020506@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel/dmesg misreporting clock speed of CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:11:58 -0000 On 4/22/2005 9:07 AM, John T. Yocum wrote: > First off, want to say thanks to all the people that make FreeBSD > possible. Very nice operating system. :) Ok, now for the problem. > > Been running FreeBSD 5-STABLE on my Dual Pentium Pro 200Mhz for many > months now. However, yesterday I upped to 5.4-RC3, and noticed something > changed during bootup. > > This line: > > CPU: Pentium Pro (145.59-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Note that line says 145.59-Mhz, I have 200Mhz CPUs. As well, prior to > upgrading to RC-3 that line would say 199.98Mhz. Not sure if that's a > bug or not. Random shot: BIOS battery died and the speed got reset to 150MHz? Then again, the speed on the Pentium Pro machine I used to have was set with a jumper (had it overclocked to 233MHz!)... Sorry if I'm way off base here, Jon