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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5435] New: Powernow code has random CPU
	speed
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:05:44 -0400
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:42:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

 > powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
 > Detected 7352.734 MHz processor.
 > powernow: No PST tables match this cpuid (0x771)
 > powernow: This is indicative of a broken BIOS.
 > powernow: Trying ACPI perflib
 > powernow: Minimum speed 3342 MHz. Maximum speed 7352 MHz.

My gut feeling is that this is an ACPI regression, as the powernow-k7
driver hasn't changed dramatically recently, and in this dmesg,
we've fallen back to using the ACPI.

Something else that's really odd is that the 'Detected' line seems
to have found a 7GHz CPU, which is novel.

		Dave