As Nick Sayer wrote ... > so long as > they don't break anything in the process. > > I would like to generate a number that will hopefully be reasonably > compatible with > the one Linux spits out. The best method I have come up with is to have > a similar > (the same?) count down loop in assembler. Have it count down from > 1,000,000 and > see how much nanotime() has gone by. NANSPERSEC/nansused = bogomips. > A 1 bogomips machine will take an extra second to do this (anything > likely to be > even able to run FreeBSD should exceed 1 BM - yes, ha ha), and a kBM CPU > > can do it in 1 ms. Perhaps in the future a prescaler might be required, > but > this whole thing is just really chrome anyway. > > Would anyone scream and projectile-vomit if I added this to identcpu.c?
I really don't see any merit in adding Linux-isms like this. Sounds a bit like the 'hack of the day' to me. I feel FreeBSD is well respected for it's stability etc. Not for it's 'me too' Linux-isms without any practical use. Mind you, I don't say Linux does not have stuff that is useful for inclusion in FreeBSD. I just stay BogoMips is what it calls itself: bogus, and should be kept from the FreeBSD kernel. Just my Dfl 0.02 W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
