From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ducrot Bruno Subject: Re: What AMD CPU is that ??? Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:12:15 +0100 Sender: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20040115121215.GS14031@poupinou.org> References: <20040114221322.GA2135@seneca.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040114221322.GA2135@seneca.muc.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Harald Milz Cc: Cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:13:22PM +0100, Harald Milz wrote: > Hi, > > I dug a little bit more into my new (alleged?) AMD Athlon XP-M 2400+ > (Barton) using x86info-1.12a. According to the 512K cache it is > indeed a Barton core but I suspect it's not a mobile. Please > see the output of x86info and /pro/cpuinfo - the kernel (SuSE > 2.4.21-166) says it's a Duron !). Essentially, I can't set > the upper and lower frequency using /proc/cpufreq. According to > http://fab51.fc2web.com/pc/refs/opn_guide.html, it is indeed a "Mainstream > XP-M" (AXMH2400FQQ4C). Any idea why setting FID and VID don't work? What > also worries me is the max FID of 13.5 which means I can't run this CPU at > 18x100? Does that mean I need to get another board (one with a real FSB133 > and a BIOS that recognized this CPU)? ACPI won't work here because it's a > Asus A7V board that the kernel will force to acpi=oldboot. > x86info is broken in order to know if you can set VID/FID. This processor can only have a mult of 13.5 at max. For the rest of your question, I don't know. Cheers, -- Ducrot Bruno -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.