Re: Voltage tweaking in powernow_k8

[Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 02:55:33PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> I'm not enthusiastic about merging this code at all.
> The big problem I see is that a lot of the reasons people want
> to do this is "The bios say xyz, but the datasheet says it can do xyz+-1"

Yes, I must admit so. It seems that many people just want to do heavy
overclock. And it can be difficult to detect a broken BIOS... though
I've discovered an interesting method: when the customer support tells
you to install crystalcpuid (a Windows utility) and then they reply that
Linux is not a supported OS, then there are high chance that their BIOS
is broken :-)

There seems to be some comments on certain laptops giving overpower to
Turions, but I can't confirm how many of them are real BIOS bugs. I will
probably continue with this as an unofficial patch. Thank you anyway
for looking into this.