AlphaPC 164SX: Curious about CPU MHz output in dmesg(8)

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:27:33AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:30:41PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > I played with my brand new AlphaPC 164SX today, and I noticed
> > one strange thing:
> > 
> > - the first time I booted it (5.3-BETA1), it displayed the
> >   following early in dmesg(8):
> >   "Digital AlphaPC 164SX 533 MHz, 266MHz"
> 
> Bazzar.
> 
Um, what do you mean, can you elaborate?  (I cut-n-pasted from
the serial console.)

> > - the second time I booted it (the same 5.3-BETA1), it displayed:
> >   "Digital AlphaPC 164SX 533 MHz, 531MHz"
> 
> This is normal.  I sent you a 533 MHz CPU, but of course you never
> actually run the CPU exactly at 533 MHz.
> 
Sure, this second one was pretty normal and expected.  ;)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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