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Date:      Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: i386/26272: [PATCH] Adds a sysctl to get the cpu frequency 
Message-ID:  <200104012110.f31LA2x32017@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR i386/26272; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To: mux@qualys.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/26272: [PATCH] Adds a sysctl to get the cpu frequency 
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:07:14 +0200

 Weeeeelllll...
 
 We already have that in machdep.tsc_freq if we trust it to be constant.
 
 If we don't trust it to be constant, any reporting is at best a guess
 and we might as well not report a random number...
 
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