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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Wrong frequencies sometimes on Sony Vaio Athlon4
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:44:04 -0500
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To: Nathan Conrad <conrad@bungled.net>
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:54:23AM -0500, Nathan Conrad wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon4 CPU on my Sony Vaio PCG-FXA49 laptop. I use
 > the powernow CPU scaling. Sometimes (a few percent of the time), the
 > driver records my laptop's CPU as the wrong speed. For example, right
 > now the following speeds are available:
 > 
 > 1292256 1076880 861504 646128 538440
 > 
 > The first should be almost exactly 1.2 GHz while the last should be
 > 500 MHz.

They're an approximation. We just report what the BIOS claims
the platform is capable of.

		Dave