From: Carl Thompson <cet@carlthompson.net>
To: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: dumb question from curious newbee.
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:35:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056224149.ef4e0e799ffee@carlthompson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306210048.52920.lawa@gmx.at>
Quoting Gregor Hlawacek <lawa@gmx.at>:
> ...
> > No, there's no frequency scaling for AMD Duron. But maybe throttling
> > (power consumption is reduced linear to processing power) is available
> -
> > try out ACPI [http://acpi.sf.net for more information]
>
> Maybe I miss understood the whole cpufreq thing. but doesn't the cpufreq
> thing do exactly that thing. My AMD Duron 1.1 GHz can be slowed down to
> 500MHz with your backport from cpufreq to 2.4.19, or did I get something
> wrong
The Regular AMD Duron has no support for PowerNow, and hence no support for
CPUFreq. Some versions of the AMD Mobile Duron _do_ have support for
PowerNow and CPUFreq. You probably have an AMD Mobile Duron, not an AMD
Duron. Different chip.
Carl Thompson
>
> Gregor
>
> btw: will there be any backport of powernow-k7 to 2.4.21?
>
>
> --
> Gregor Hlawacek Austria
> http://www.unileoben.ac.at/~m9327555/ May the source be with you!
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>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-21 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-20 7:22 dumb question from curious newbee Japie
2003-06-20 17:44 ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-06-20 18:29 ` Johan Braennlund
2003-06-20 22:48 ` Gregor Hlawacek
2003-06-21 19:35 ` Carl Thompson [this message]
2003-06-22 10:18 ` Gregor Hlawacek
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