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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Marijan Peh <marijan.peh@freenet.de>
Cc: cpufreq_mail_list <cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Acer 1304xc laptop & wrong max cpu frequency
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:59:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806125930.GB26791@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040806053333.GA10452@kanta>

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:33:33AM +0200, Marijan Peh wrote:

There are two sources of tables we can look for for information
on available frequencies. When one looks broken, we fall back to
the other.

 > powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and
 > voltage.
 > powernow: No PST tables match this cpuid (0x780)
 > powernow: This is indicative of a broken BIOS.

Your BIOS authors can't read specifications.

 > powernow: Trying ACPI perflib
 > powernow: Minimum speed 666 MHz. Maximum speed 1266 MHz.

Thankfully, they managed to get the ACPI tables right.

Looks fine.

		Dave

      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-06  5:33 Acer 1304xc laptop & wrong max cpu frequency Marijan Peh
2004-08-06 12:59 ` Dave Jones [this message]

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