From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl Thompson Subject: Re: dumb question from curious newbee. Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:35:49 -0700 Sender: cpufreq-admin@www.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <1056224149.ef4e0e799ffee@carlthompson.net> References: <1056093725.15596.2.camel@localhost> <20030620174437.GB1889@brodo.de> <200306210048.52920.lawa@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200306210048.52920.lawa@gmx.at> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: cpufreq-admin@www.linux.org.uk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk Quoting Gregor Hlawacek : > ... > > 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! > This posting is 100% M$ free. Guaranteed by Tux, the friendly penguin. >