Re: ondemand and p3-m

[Niko Ehrenfeuchter <ehrenfeu@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>]

Hi,

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 00:15 +0100, Eric Piel wrote:
> 20.01.2006 23:16, Niko Ehrenfeuchter wrote/a écrit:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm currently trying to get the ondemand-governor working with my PIII-M
> > (1133 MHz). The system is a ThinkPad X24 using the Intel 830 chipset,
> > kernel 2.6.15.1 with the corresponding (stable) acpi-patch.
> > 
> > While using the speedstep-ich module works for userspace stuff, echoing
> > "ondemand" into scaling_governor simply yields an invalid argument
> > error. Latency issue, I assume...? Turning on cpufreq's debug mode
> > doesn't tell anything why it won't use the ondemand gov.
> > 
> > Looked through the archive for that issue, but I haven't been _that_
> > successful, since it lacks some kind of search function... The only
> > thing I've discovered was a thread in october where Eric Piel posted a
> > patch for the first-generation 440BX speedstep. Is this patch included
> > in the current kernel? Should it work for me too?
> > 
> > Any hints?
> Hi!
> 
> Which driver do you use? Is it speedstep-ich?

yep, mentioned it in the second section :-)

> If so, it's now available 
> in vanilla kernel since... 2.6.16-rc1, slightly too bleding edge for 
> common mortals but it means it's coming soon!

ah, that sounds nice. Missed it only very tight...

> If you don't want to wait, you can just apply the 2 patches of Mattia 
> Dongili on a 2.6.15. ("Move PMBASE..." and "Measure transition latency 
> at driver initialization" _updated_)

where can I fetch them? The ml-archives?

Thanks for the fast reply,
Niko