Athlon Mobile support

Athlon Mobile support

[Iacopo Spalletti]

I'm using 2.4.21 kernel, acpi-030619 patch and 030702 cvs snapshot of 
cpufreq on a sony notebook (FX905P) with athlon xp 1600+ on board.
I cannot find a way to enable powernow support for my cpu.
Config vars are present for K6, speedstep and other processor but not for 
athlon, supported in  older versions of cpufreq
Thanks in advance


Best regards

Iacopo Spalletti
iacopo@spalletti.it

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Re: Athlon Mobile support

[Lars Gemeinhardt]

Iacopo Spalletti wrote:

> I'm using 2.4.21 kernel, acpi-030619 patch and 030702 cvs snapshot of 
> cpufreq on a sony notebook (FX905P) with athlon xp 1600+ on board.
> I cannot find a way to enable powernow support for my cpu.
> Config vars are present for K6, speedstep and other processor but not 
> for athlon, supported in  older versions of cpufreq 

take this:

http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cpufreq/cpufreq-2.4.22-1.gz

the cvs one for the 2.4.x kernel is the stable one (see 
http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq_old/kernel.html), which doesn't include the 
K7 (alias Athlon) :-(
The advanced one has support ... and Dave Jones is the new 
lead-developer ...

>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Iacopo Spalletti
> iacopo@spalletti.it

Ciao Lars

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Re: Athlon Mobile Support

[James Mabry]

Hello,
I am also using a Mobile Athlon XP. I got the 
cpufreq-LINUX_2_4-20030701.tar.bz2 patch and applied it using 'sh 
patchin.sh'. I am not seeing any of the entries in /proc that other 
people have using cpufreq. Am I doing something wrong? Are there better 
(any) instructions on how to go about using cpufreq? The users-guide 
didn't help :(. Thanks.
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Re: Athlon Mobile Support

[Lars Gemeinhardt]

James Mabry wrote:

> Hello,
> I am also using a Mobile Athlon XP. I got the 
> cpufreq-LINUX_2_4-20030701.tar.bz2 patch and applied it using 'sh 
> patchin.sh'. I am not seeing any of the entries in /proc that other 
> people have using cpufreq. Am I doing something wrong? Are there 
> better (any) instructions on how to go about using cpufreq? The 
> users-guide didn't help :(. Thanks.
> -- 

one question - same answer!
PLEASE read the list ...

take this:

http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cpufreq/cpufreq-2.4.22-1.gz

the cvs one for the 2.4.x kernel is the stable one (see 
http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq_old/kernel.html), which doesn't include the 
K7 (alias Athlon)
The advanced one has support ... and Dave Jones is the new 
lead-developer ...

>
> Slackware Linux -
> Find out about the 4S rule.
> www.slackware-advocacy.org/whyuse.html
>
> Then try it out for yourself.
> www.slackware.org
>
>
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Re: Athlon Mobile support

[Iacopo Spalletti]

Il 08.28 02/07/03 +0200, Lars Gemeinhardt ha scritto:
 >Iacopo Spalletti wrote:
 >
 >> I'm using 2.4.21 kernel, acpi-030619 patch and 030702 cvs snapshot of
 >> cpufreq on a sony notebook (FX905P) with athlon xp 1600+ on board.
 >> I cannot find a way to enable powernow support for my cpu.
 >> Config vars are present for K6, speedstep and other processor but not
 >> for athlon, supported in  older versions of cpufreq
 >
 >take this:
 >
 >http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cpufreq/cpufreq-2.4.22-1.gz
 >
Great, thanks!
Works fine now

Best regards

Iacopo Spalletti
iacopo@spalletti.it

PGP key block: http://www.spalletti.it/pgp  

Re: Athlon Mobile Support

[James Mabry]

Lars Gemeinhardt wrote:

> one question - same answer!

Oops sorry. Thought the answer I was looking for would be different than 
your previous. I'll try it out and report on how things went.

Reading more about cpufreq it sounds like this does not provide voltage 
regulation? I'm using cpufreq in the hopes to greatly increase my 
battery life. Should I expect this as a result? Thanks.
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Re: Athlon Mobile Support

[Lars Gemeinhardt]

James Mabry wrote:

> Lars Gemeinhardt wrote:
>
>> one question - same answer!
>
>
> Oops sorry. Thought the answer I was looking for would be different 
> than your previous. I'll try it out and report on how things went.
>
> Reading more about cpufreq it sounds like this does not provide 
> voltage regulation? I'm using cpufreq in the hopes to greatly increase 
> my battery life. Should I expect this as a result? Thanks. 

normaly (if your PST table is correct) both FIDs and VIDs should be 
regulated - but Sony and Acer PST tables (hold in the BIOS) are not 
correct ... maybe we can fix this :-) I send therefor a Call4Responce ...