From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 15 12:23: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E664A37B419; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:22:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0434.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.179] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16lyDh-0003oS-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:22:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3C9257F2.5C0EE18F@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:22:10 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Michael Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting sysctl variables in Mac OS X with hw info References: <20020315120943.T71602-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > I've been asked several times about how to get CPU speed information for > inventory purposes. > > People would really like the speed number printed on the chip, not what > it's currently running at, if that's retrievable :) Can't mask the speed number. Chips with a lower printed number are just chips that failed testing at higher clock rates. Sometimes, they don't even fail, if they have a big demand swing. 8-). I guess they could laser it out... If Intel really didn't want overclocking to happen, they would put the clock on board the CPU, and make it an output, not an input... 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message