Missing clock-frequency property

You are running Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) and FreedomBox version 26.9.1. FreedomBox is up to date. Plugged into router.

Found this error in Cockpit:

What are consequences? What to do about it?

Maybe overlooked, but didn’t see message in plinth-log files.

Nobody else having this error?

I guess it has to do with a hardware inability. Maybe the A20 cpu hasn’t this clock. I have the same message in my logs.

Some searching gives:

This error indicates that the Device Tree, a data structure that tells the Linux kernel about the hardware, is missing a specific clock-frequency property.

The Pioneer FreedomBox features a dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, the kernel can determine the correct clock speed for this processor through other means, so it doesn’t rely on this specific property from the Device Tree.

It doesn’t seem the error is related to hardware functionality.

Best is to ignore the error. It seems to be a known, non-critical kernel warning.

Topic can be closed.

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