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SubjectRe: Laptops & CPU frequency
Hi!

> >No - if the laptop changes speed on its own, using a system that Linux
> >does not understand, then Linux won't know about the change,
> >/proc/cpuinfo will not be updated, and stuff won't go too good.
>
> Is there any realistic way of noticing this sort of change?

You can detect that tsc runs at wrong speed from timer interrupt.

pavel

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