Messages in this thread | | | From | Balaji Srinivasan <> | Subject | Re: clock speed | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:30:13 -0600 (CDT) |
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--------Geert Uytterhoeven wrote---------- > > On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 mcculley@iag.net wrote: > > Is there any way to, from user space, find out the system clock speed? > > That is, reliably and without having to do a nanosleep and watch the > > cycle counter. > > Parse /proc/cpuinfo. You can derive an estimation for the CPU clock speed > based on CPU type, stepping and bogomips. > > On Linux/m68k, /proc/cpuinfo even gives you that estimation automatically. > > Greetings, > > Geert > with the utime patch you get that information directly from /proc/cpuinfo utime patch is for the ondemand microsecond resolution timers.... its available at http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/projects/utime
Also, The updated utime patch for 2.1.x kernels should be available soon (in a weeks time) Details about this would be posted later balaji
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