cpuinfo_max_freq is the highest boost state, not the base clock -
mislabeling it "nominal" understated the gap between the two on an AMD
box using acpi-cpufreq (this machine: 5.08 GHz boost vs 3.40 GHz base).
Prefer, in order: the model-name string, cpufreq's own base_frequency
(intel_pstate, kHz), ACPI CPPC's nominal_freq (MHz; what acpi-cpufreq
exposes instead), else "unknown". cpuinfo_max_freq is now reported
alongside, separately, as "max boost", never folded into "nominal".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
leonarski_fandClaude Opus 5.5
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