From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wouter Verhelst Subject: Re: p4-clockmod doesn't seem to allow the highest possible speed Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:35:26 +0100 Sender: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20040110193526.GM10531@grep.be> References: <20040109181851.GA1393@grep.be> <20040110101534.GA10003@dominikbrodowski.de> <20040110110800.GA8294@grep.be> <20040110131824.GA5010@dominikbrodowski.de> <20040110152145.GA10160@grep.be> <20040110154110.GA8735@dominikbrodowski.de> <20040110163212.GD10531@grep.be> <20040110185308.GZ14031@poupinou.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040110185308.GZ14031@poupinou.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ducrot Bruno Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:53:08PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:32:12PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:41:10PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > Unfortunately, you're right. VIA doesn't publish their spec sheets > > > as Intel does, so there's no speedstep-via driver (yet). Maybe > > > acpi.ko works? > > > > It does, but when my CPU is throttled, it makes an uncomfortable > > sound at high frequency, so I try to avoid that. > > Do you mean the processor is at high speed (performance), and throttling > is enabled? > > So it should not be even surprising. > > The P4 is able to throttle itself, so I guess the throttling > things done externally by the south bridge would have not even > been tested by the platform designer... Uh, I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean here. The issue is: when I put the processor in some other T-state than T0, it makes noise. That happens both when it's in P0 or P1. Not that it matters -- p4-clockmod seems to do it right :) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.