Re: p4-clockmod doesn't seem to allow the highest possible speed

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:53:08PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:32:12PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:41:10PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, you're right. VIA doesn't publish their spec sheets
> > > as Intel does, so there's no speedstep-via driver (yet). Maybe
> > > acpi.ko works?
> > 
> > It does, but when my CPU is throttled, it makes an uncomfortable
> > sound at high frequency, so I try to avoid that.
> 
> Do you mean the processor is at high speed (performance), and throttling
> is enabled?
> 
> So it should not be even surprising.
> 
> The P4 is able to throttle itself, so I guess the throttling
> things done externally by the south bridge would have not even
> been tested by the platform designer...

Uh, I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean here. The issue is:
when I put the processor in some other T-state than T0, it makes noise.
That happens both when it's in P0 or P1.

Not that it matters -- p4-clockmod seems to do it right :)

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