On Thu, 6 May 1999, David Murn wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 1999, Jonathan Hall wrote:
>
> > 3) Linux won't tell you the CPU Mhz, but your BIOS should.
>
> Not quite true. There's a trick that the kernel is doing at the moment
> which seems to be able to figure out the CPU clock speed. I dunno if
> that's coming from BIOS or what, but it looks fairly accurate, even on
> older machines.
>
Yep, it seems to work as my AMD K5 PR166 actually runs at 116Mhz, even
though the M/B is set to 166 and linux reports this correctly.
Will
