Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102

Aaron M. Ucko (amu@mit.edu)
25 May 1998 16:53:26 -0500


James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> writes:

> saying "MY BOGOMIPS CHANGED! WHAT SHOULD I DO? IS MY PROCESSOR DYEING?"
> (OK, perhaps I'm exagrating a little bit.)

Not much, though. :-/

> I do not belive in gearing to the lowest common denominator. Ever. If
> people want to look in /proc, more power to them, but if they don't
> understand what they see there, the way to fix the problem is not to have
> less information avaible, but to have the information better documented.
> Can you say BogoMIPS-howto? Can you say linux/Documentation/bogomips.txt
> (sombody, PLEASE write one! I'm going to start on one shortly.)

Um, there's been a BogoMIPS mini-HOWTO (.../HOWTO/mini/BogoMips)
explaining the (in)significance of BogoMIPS for quite some time now.

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