Re: Getting cpu frequency

From: Dave Jones
Date: Sat Feb 11 2006 - 17:11:08 EST


On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:42:07PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hallo Dave,
>
> * Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> [2006-02-11 22:38]:
> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:47:34PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > at the moment I try to get the current cpu frequency
> > > P.S. Please CC me, I am not subsribed, thanks
> >
> > Are you trying to do this from a userspace program ?
> > If so, this isn't going to work.
>
> Yes I am.

Read it from sysfs or /proc/cpuinfo.
But, why does your app care ?
If it's to set up some sort of timing loop, it's going to
fail miserably.

Dave

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