Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove bogomips from /proc/cpuinfo

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:49:24 +0200

On Mon, Jul 31, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Monday 31 July 2006 14:59, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > Remove bogomips from /proc/cpuinfo.
> > It is now really bogus since "timebase-frequency" is shown.
> 
> Well, but it's still part of the ABI, right?
> How do you determine that there are no broken applications
> still relying on it?

Everything works on a G5, as example. Alpha doesnt have it either.
What pratical value had bogomips for an application?