On 9 Sep, this message from W. Crowshaw echoed through cyberspace: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:07:53PM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: >> On 3 Sep, this message from J. Javier Maestro echoed through >> cyberspace: >> > On Sep Tue 02 2003 09:49, William Crowshaw wrote: >> >> Oh, by the way, the fixed worked on my G3 upgrade >> >> card. Here's my /proc/cpuinfo >> >> >> >> cpu : 740/750 >> >> clock : 195MHz >> [snip] >> >> detected as : 16 (PowerMac 7500) >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> Strangely, it only says my clock in 195Mhz when its >> >> supposed to be at 300MhZ. Oh well, another ppc >> >> problem I got to work out. >> > >> > Dunno if your G3 supports stepping frequencies, but if so, check >> > that you are running at the max speed. >> >> No, no, the problem here is that OpenFirmware in this OldWorld 7500 >> doesn't know a thing about G3 processors, and hence gets the clock >> frequency calculation wrong. >> [snip] > > So does this mean that my PowerMac 7500 can't fully > utilize the Mhz of my G3? Or does it simply mean > that it can't calculate the correct clock speed for > this hardware report?
Simply that OF calculates wrong. No other undesired efects :-) Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
