Alan Cox wrote: > > Fine. But that is their problem 8). VIA already has documentation for > how to check the speed of a CPU. Intel seem to have NDA'd theirs but I'm > sure they can provide that algorithm easily enough. >
If with "speed" you mean "frequency" it's trivial to measure using RDTSC.
This measurement can be done in userspace, and is also exported by the
kernel into /proc/cpuinfo.
-hpa
