Re: Manual PST settings for "unrecognized CPUs"

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>]

Hi (I'm back from very long vacation ;)

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:26:34AM +0200, Harald Milz wrote:
> GoatZilla <goatzilla@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I saw a patch fly by a short while ago where a user added some
> > settings for an unrecognized config.  Is this the only way to hack in
> > a PST?
> 
> Actually there were (at least) two patches - Bruno's patch which
> implemented additional /proc fs entries to send frequency settings to, and
> mine which uses command line parameters for the powernow-k7 module. You can
> find them in the ML archive. Internally, they do basically the same thing.
> Mine is a little inferior as far as sanity checks. But It Works For Me
> [TM]. 
> 
> Please be advised that you _could_ potentially fry your CPU if you use them
> :-) But IMHO it's quite unlikely. 
> 
> What these patches can't do is set the VID on most (?) desktop boards
> because of a lack of hardware support. But you should be able to lower the
> FID to a certain extent, and the power consumption is linearly proportional
> to the frequency, after all. 

Mine is a little bit too old btw, and I guess yours should be used
instead for now..

Cheers,

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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