[PATCH] powerpc: Show current speed in /proc/cpuinfo

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Apr 27 19:24:38 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 03:41 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On other architectures, the frequency in /proc/cpuinfo moves with cpufreq
> changes. It makes sense to do the same on powerpc to keep users from
> getting confused. Fall back to old ppc_proc_freq for non-cpufreq systems.
> 
> Also change the format to three decimals, having full Hz granularity is
> silly these days.

That doesn't work if cpufreq is a module... on mac, I used to have
exactly that hack, though at one point I changed to just updating
ppc_proc_freq :-) But then, it's easy because I only change the freq on
all CPUs at the same time. Might be different for you.

Ben.




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