Actually, new notebooks with "Copperville" cpus are supposed to have this
kind of behaviour, perhaps someone (me ?) should write a patch to allow
forcing of linux kernel to recompute bogomips.
Vladimir Dergachev
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ramon Nieto wrote:
> Hi!
>
> the problem is a bad configuration of the BIOS, you
> have to configure your BIOS so your cpu can have full
> power when pluged in.
>
> The toshiba laptops have some parameters for the cpu
> and the screen, so you can save some power when
> running on batteries.
>
> You can access the BIOS by pressing the esc key when
> booting or use the rescue/maintenance disk provided
> bye toshiba
>
> --- Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > So I've now confirmed that my toshiba can speed-up
> > its cpu under some
> > circumstances. When it is powered up while batteries
> > are low (<20%
> > will work), it will start with cpu at 150MHz, and
> > bogomips are
> > computed accordingly.
> >
> > If I plug it into AC power, it will speed up to
> > 300MHz, but bogomips
> > still have "slow" value. Therefore all udelays are
> > wrong by factor of
> > two -- udelay(50) will only wait approx. 25usec.
> > That seems pretty
> > dangerous to me. Maybe we need some other source of
> > short loops?
> >
> > Pavel
> > --
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> > ~/.signature, please!
> >
>
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