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From: IsoH <jd@××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o, gentoo-ppc-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] G5 & missing performance
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:37:59
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.21.0406111635080.23467-100000@alphatux2.ts.ray.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] G5 & missing performance by IsoH
1 On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, IsoH wrote:
2
3 > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, IsoH wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
6 > >
7 > > > is /proc/cpufreq useable on a G5?
8 > >
9 > > Perhaps not...
10 >
11 > Solved, I think...
12 >
13 > I set following OF-values:
14 >
15 > boot-command mac-boot
16 > boot-device sd0:2,yaboot
17 >
18 > then I cold-booted machine and voila previous bzipping time
19 > was back, magical stunt?!
20 >
21 > I still suspect that boot-command value differs anything;
22 > perhaps if boot is done from OF console with command
23 > "boot"/"mac-boot" then machine is set to lower speed.
24 > On the other hand, if boot is done by cold-booting and not
25 > interfering boot sequence in any way then machine's processing
26 > speed should be ok I think. Have to check that...
27 >
28
29 Yes, so it seems to be that it doesn't matter if
30 "boot-command" is "boot" or "mac-boot" bzipping-test's
31 speed is same in both ways...
32
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34 >
35 >
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39 IsoH
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