Re: mistake about the cpufreq?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:17:08PM -0400, äéè wrote:

> So after reading the files in cpu-freq/, I saw it was mentioned in
> user-guide.txt that the scaling_ ones is what the kernel thinks the
> freq is and cpuinfo is the actual freq.
> y can these two be different?

Many systems don't have independently clockable cores. In that case the 
cpu will run at the speed of the highest clocked core.

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