[U-Boot] Low BogoMIPS on MPC8541

[Jens Gehrlein]

Hi Kumar,

Kumar Gala schrieb:
> On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm working on a stripped-down mpc8541 board (that has just
>> a serian and twe enets).
>> I have an issue on delay calibration. In fact at boot time, I see the
>> following linux printk message on the serial console:
>>
>> ....
>> Calibrating delay loop... 83.20 BogoMIPS (lpj=166400)
>> ....
> 
> The value seems reasonable.  What freq is the core running at  
> (guessing 833Mhz).  My 1.5Ghz 8572 has a bogomips of 150.

Seems that the value is about a tenth of the core frequency.
I observed similar on TQM8548. Although I know, that the value
is bogus (as the name tells), do you know the reason, why it
isn't the core frequency?

Thanks.

Kind regards,
Jens