On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:17:05PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

Olaf Hering [off-list ref] writes:

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 On Mon, Jul 31, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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On Monday 31 July 2006 14:59, Olaf Hering wrote:

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Remove bogomips from /proc/cpuinfo.
It is now really bogus since "timebase-frequency" is shown.

Well, but it's still part of the ABI, right?
How do you determine that there are no broken applications
still relying on it?

Everything works on a G5, as example. Alpha doesnt have it either.
What pratical value had bogomips for an application?

What harm does it do?

Kernel bloat.

--linas