BogoMIPS change in 3.6+

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Jan 31 11:21:19 EST 2013


On Thursday 31 January 2013 10:15:11 Rob Herring wrote:
> The BogoMIPS value has changed on highbank since the commit below in
> 3.6. It is now half the value it used to be. Does that matter other than
> perception (I've checked that I'm not running at half the freq)?

I think the only danger is that your customers might think they
are running at half the clock rate. Nothing in the kernel should
be using the BogoMIPS value.

	Arnd



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