In article <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/19990902233418$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>> CPU: Pentium/P54C (132.73-MHz 586-class CPU)
>> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping=12
>> Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
>>
>> Seems more precise and informative. For 386/486 based hardware
>> someone could adapt one of the numerous CPU speed detection routines
>> out there.
>
>Indeed. In fact, if someone is truly motivated to go and find
>something to do, rather than adding a BogoMIPS counter why not instead
>figure out some way to add CPU speed detection to SMP machines? As
>anyone with an SMP box knows, that speed information is disabled for
>various reasons.
What I want is a simple new readable sysctl, something like:
hw.clockrate: 132
I think that this would be useful both for development (how fast
is that stupid machine down in the bunker?), and system admininstration
(who needs a cpu upgrade this year?).
Doing this for Pentium and better systems should be trivial. Doing
it for 486 and lower would just add a timing loop. Doing it for SMP
would be harder.
hw.cpu0.clockrate: 233
hw.cpu1.clockrate: 233
Possibly? The implementer gets to pick a better name than these.
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Jonathan
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