Re: Athlon 64 complains of frequency mismatch

[Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:26:01PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > Is this really helpful?
> Partly. It shows the values received by the powernow-k8 driver are
> _completely_ bogus. A standard questions: have you tried a BIOS update?

I looked for one.  I downloaded a BIOS, though I'm not sure it is
newer than the one installed.  The release notes make no mention of
powernow or acpi.

> > On rumination, I came to a similar conclusion.  I can do as you ask.
> > Is this the same as grabbing the dsdt from the /proc/acpi interface
> > and running it through Intel's decompiler?  That's where I've started
> > to go.
> 
> Not really -- acpi_pdump dumps what's received by the powernow-k8 driver
> from the ACPI subsystem, while decompiling /proc/acpi/dsdt prints out what's
> really there in the ACPI tables. In your case, it might indeed be
> interesting whether a more appropriate P-States part of the DSDT is
> contained somewhere, which is not initialized properly. Could you
> disassemble the DSDT, please, and check for _PSS entries (grep -20 _PSS)?
> 

I did fetch it.  There are no entries for _PSS or even PSS.

> Thanks,
> 	Dominik