Re: [PATCH] Intel clock speed detection

Chris Wedgwood (chris@f00f.org)
Wed, 31 Dec 1997 10:17:27 +1300

From: <p0thead@ooz.net>
To: Robert Woodcock <rcw@oz.net>
cc: Phil Brutsche <pbrutsch@creighton.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel clock speed detection
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971230130725.29180A-100000@ooz.net>

I'm a little confuised.. I just tried to run this on my nexgen-90, and
it gave me this:

[root@metallica /root]# ./mhz.estimate
Illegal Instruction (core dumped)

Now, does this program only work on pentium's, i'm a little confused.

I assume it uses the RDTSC or MSR that Intel kept undocumented for some
time. Thus only the recent clone chips support these.

Fairly shitty thing for Intel to do IMO. Perhaps DOJ should look there way
more often.

-Chris