[PATCH] remove bogomips from /proc/cpuinfo
Olaf Hering
olh at suse.de
Tue Aug 1 03:49:24 EST 2006
On Mon, Jul 31, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 31 July 2006 14:59, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > Remove bogomips from /proc/cpuinfo.
> > It is now really bogus since "timebase-frequency" is shown.
>
> Well, but it's still part of the ABI, right?
> How do you determine that there are no broken applications
> still relying on it?
Everything works on a G5, as example. Alpha doesnt have it either.
What pratical value had bogomips for an application?
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