><Description of BogoMIPS deleted>
>> 
>> Would anyone scream and projectile-vomit if I added this to identcpu.c?
>> 
>
>I might. :-)  Why exactly, except to keep up with the Linux kidz, do we need
>this?  I recognize that this is solely a cosmetic change, but one of the 
>things I hold over the heads of the Linux folks I deal with is the fact that
>FreeBSD is a professional quality operating system which doesn't need useless
>blinking lights like BogoMIPS.
>
>Chalk me up as one of the people who considers "Linux works like that" as a
>negative.

   I'm with you on this, Keith. I'd rather that we kept the professional
FreeBSD look and feel. If we look too much like Linux, then people will
just use Linux.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
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