CPU Temperature Patch

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:03:42PM +0200, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
>
> "D.J. Osguthorpe" wrote:
> > Here are two patches that appear to fix the cpu_temp function in setup.c.
> > They have been applied to a number of Ben Herrenschmidt kernels on a 500 MHz
> > Pismo powerbook and print reasonable values when you cat /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> The patch seems to work on my Lombard/333, too... Really great!
>
> > +       /* this set for 500 MHz Pismo - how do we get access to clock?? */
>
> There is, in the same file, around line 319 code to read the clock speed from
> the device tree. However, is it really necessary to include the clock speed at
> this point? What is the drawback if we just assume 500 MHz (or even the max
> value) for every G3 based machine?

Why assume when we can do it properly?  Besides, a friend of mine oc'ed his
B&W to 550, so it's possible to have >500Mhz :)

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