BogoMIPS change in 3.6+

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Jan 31 11:25:23 EST 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 04:24:56PM +0000, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> On Thursday 31 January 2013 09:45 PM, 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 also stumbled on this while testing Will's series.[1]
> There should be no other functional issue apart from getting surprised.

Right, but you were using the arch-timers w/ Cortex-A15. I thought Highbank
was A9?

Will



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