CPU has 8 scaling options, but only 5 are offered.

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Mon Jul 25 12:16:34 UTC 2005


Hi.

Rodd Clarkson <rodd at clarkson.id.au> wrote:

> Stepping seems to suggest that the CPU can scale through 8 step, but the
> GNOME CPU frequency selector only offers 5 steps (800, 1.07, 1.33, 1.6
> and 2.0) and not 8.

Stepping is a kind of model number for the mask used to produce the processor.
It has nothing to do with scaling.

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