Re: Via 694X based SMB boards (Apollo Pro133A)

[Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Dino Klein wrote:
> > What are your Processor objects?  Here's a dual processor Xeon board with
> > a duplicated P_BLK.  The extra two objects are for the hyperthreading
> > logical CPUs.
> >
> > IntelSE7501BR2.asl:        Processor (CPU1, 0x01, 0x00000410, 0x06) {}
> > IntelSE7501BR2.asl:        Processor (CPU2, 0x02, 0x00000410, 0x06) {}
> > IntelSE7501BR2.asl:        Processor (CPU3, 0x06, 0x00000410, 0x06) {}
> > IntelSE7501BR2.asl:        Processor (CPU4, 0x07, 0x00000410, 0x06) {}
>
> For my motherboard there is no P_BLK specified for either CPU.
> However, what you show here makes me wonder about this:
> ******
> 4.7.3.5 Processor Register Block (P_BLK)
> This optional register block is used to control each processor in the
> system. There is one unique processor register block per processor in the
> system.
> ******
>
> This is from the 2.0c spec, which also appears in 1.0b.
> Doesn't this imply that the statistics collected regarding the number of
> state promotions/demotions are meanigless?

Can't parse your question.  Without a P_BLK, you shouldn't be doing ACPI
throttling.  I assume you guessed at the P_BLK address or hardcoded it
from a datasheet?

-Nate


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