... booted 0.99.11 - what in the world is BogoMips and >>what does calibrate_delay do? > >...the number looks ... and (b) I like to see "33.22 BogoMips" at startup. I call it "BogoMips" mostly because it doesn't really tell you very much about the speed of ...

linux-activists - Linus Torvalds - Aug 2 1993 - 08:06

... I booted 0.99.11 - what in the world is BogoMips and >what does calibrate_delay do? Various device-level code needs to ... microseconds). If I am reading the code correctly, I believe BogoMips is roughly speaking the number of times through the loop in ...

linux-activists - Charles Hedrick - Jul 29 1993 - 04:08

... >If I am reading the code correctly, I believe BogoMips is roughly >speaking the number of times through the loop ... some real work such as (re)calibrating the speed of inb() and recalibrating BogoMips. If someone changes the speed in the middle then ...

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Aug 2 1993 - 04:41

erc@apple.com (Ed Carp) writes: >I noticed this when I booted 0.99.11 - what in the world is BogoMips and >what does calibrate_delay do? ...the number looks suspiciously like clk/2 but don't let that fool you. It is actually the number of white ...

linux-activists - Paul Gortmaker - Jul 31 1993 - 07:29