BogoMIPS change in 3.6+

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Thu Jan 31 11:31:44 EST 2013


On Thursday 31 January 2013 09:55 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> 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?
>
Ahh.. Sorry looking at description I just thought it could be the same
issue.

Regards,
Santosh




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