Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

[Mark Lord]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:57:40PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
>  > Mark Lord wrote:
>  > >
>  > >Okay, I'm complaining:  /proc/cpuinfo is no longer correct
>  > >for my Pentium-M notebook, as ov 2.6.15-rc7.  Now it reports
>  > >a cpu speed of approx 800Mhz for a 2.0Mhz Pentium-M.
>  > 
>  > 2.0GHz, not Mhz!  (blush)
>  > 
>  > Prior to -rc7, /proc/cpuinfo would scale according to the
>  > current speedstep of the CPU.  Now it seems stuck at the
>  > lowest setting for some reason.
>
> Ok, if the scaling doesn't work any more, that's a bug rather
> than an intentional breakage.  More details please? dmesg ?
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq contents? What were you using
> to do the scaling previously?  (An app, or ondemand)

The actual speedstep component ("ondemand" cpufreq) is working just
fine, according to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq.  But /proc/cpuinfo
is no longer reflecting the current values -- stuck at 800Mhz
regardless of /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq showing other values.

Cheers
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