From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
To: "Devriendt, Paul" <paul.devriendt@amd.com>
Cc: cpufreq@ZenII.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: powernow-k8 problem
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:14:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050314181458.GI2298@poupinou.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84EA05E2CA77634C82730353CBE3A843021DDF84@SAUSEXMB1.amd.com>
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:44:53AM -0600, Devriendt, Paul wrote:
> As for having the driver calculate a correction factor based
> on by how much you are overclocking the part ... this is somewhere
> AMD does not want to go. Besides, I am not sure how the driver
> would figure out what the actual speed was versus the reported
> speed. Probably only by calibrating TSC against an external source,
> but if the system is overclocked, what confidence level would I
> have that the external source is true ? It would be bad to penalize
> all in-spec users with excessive delays to support out-of-spec
> users.
Well you are right. Anyway I am not sure if the system is stable enough
to compile a new kernel ;)
--
Bruno Ducrot
-- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
-- Don't know. Don't care.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-14 17:44 powernow-k8 problem Devriendt, Paul
2005-03-14 18:14 ` Bruno Ducrot [this message]
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2005-03-10 20:07 Devriendt, Paul
2005-03-14 12:10 ` Bruno Ducrot
2005-03-04 12:00 red
2005-03-10 16:51 ` Bruno Ducrot
2004-12-01 14:26 Devriendt, Paul
2004-12-01 15:09 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
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2004-11-14 18:19 ` Michał Pytasz
2004-11-14 16:31 Devriendt, Paul
2004-11-14 11:13 Michał Pytasz
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