On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 07:39 -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Hello, > > It seems that the kernel does not expose the Front-Side Bus (FSN) Clock > speed to user applications
and that is a good thing ;) > Knowledge the the FSB speed is very useful to monitoring tools. It is used > to compute certain bus-related metrics. perhaps. > > Looking at the code, it seems that there is no standard way of extracting > the FSB speed. For each processor model, you have different MSRs. I would > think that the routines in the cpufreq code could be moved out and used > as the basis to expose the information somewhere in /sys. ... yet not all CPU's *have* an FSB. Notably AMD ones do not, and I'm sure you've read on a lot of online tech magazines that other vendors may also not have one in the future :-) Exposing a concept that we KNOW does not make sense via a kernel interface (which means we need to keep it around forever) is in my opinion quite a bad mistake to make.... Please lets not do this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
