Using ondemand power governor the displayed frequency the current value but not the maximal frequency. Better using the files under /sys: n22 /etc # grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz cpu MHz : 598.206 n22 /etc # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq 1700000 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I don't think it's up to me to decide which value (maximum/current) should be displayed here. Please contact the upstream author if you want get this changed.