From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Singer Subject: Re: Athlon 64 complains of frequency mismatch Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:42:36 -0700 Sender: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20040621214236.GA3858@buici.com> References: <20040618185103.GA14909@buici.com> <20040619104456.GA7689@dominikbrodowski.de> <20040619155554.GA32432@buici.com> <20040618185103.GA14909@buici.com> <20040619104456.GA7689@dominikbrodowski.de> <20040619163631.GA1369@buici.com> <20040621202601.GA8064@dominikbrodowski.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040621202601.GA8064@dominikbrodowski.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=gmane.org@www.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk 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