Re: cpuinfo shows wrong MHz value

From: Frans Pop
Date: Wed Feb 18 2009 - 16:06:00 EST


On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Joerg Platte wrote:
> The last kernel that was working correct was 2.6.24 (here the output
> from 2.6.24.6):

Right. I suspect then that the following commit may be the cause of the
regression:
commit ed9cbcd40004904dbe61ccc16d6106a7de38c998
Author: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 20 14:20:21 2007 -0500
Revert "speedstep-lib.c: fix frequency multiplier for Pentium4 models 0&1"

That would exactly explain the factor 8 of the error.

Do you have a line like the following in your debug output?
P4 - FSB %u kHz; Multiplier %u; Speed %u kHz\n
If so, what does it say for .24 and .28?

Can you please provide the output of 'x86info -a' (as root) after loading
the cpuid module?
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