>    It doesn't appear that way to me. (But of course, I have very little experience 
>with the
> internals of linux, and may be way off-base ;-) ).

The implementation is wrong thetheory is right. But then he said it was
his first kernel

> It seems like this would be more accurate, the comments in the code state that it
> is accurate to 100 ppm.

The bogomips are computed from the real cpu tsc nowdays so I deal fir this

> One final comment:  Can we have a silent success path. ie don't include
> the following:
> 
>   printk(KERN_INFO "CPUs have the same speed, enabling TSC\n");

Seems sensible

> Maybe in the 2.5 stream,  some type of debug_level could be passed to the kernel  at 
>boot

Actually I thought it already was there. Never looked hard.

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