Re: Bogus BogoMIPS on ThinkPad?

[Arend Meetsma <arend meetsma org>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Patrick E Kane wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:14:24AM -0600, Patrick E Kane wrote:
>
> When my ThinkPad 600E boots Linux says that it has a 75 MHz CPU,
> but my BIOS tells me it has a 300 MHz CPU -- whats the deal?
>
>   Linux version 2.4.9-13 (bhcompile stripples devel redhat com)
>     (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1
>     Tue Oct 30 20:11:04 EST 2001
>  ...
>  Initializing CPU#0
>  Detected 75.431 MHz processor.
>  Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
>  Calibrating delay loop... 169.98 BogoMIPS
>  ...

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