Re: Pentium III (Coppermine) cpufreq support

[Ducrot Bruno <ducrot@poupinou.org>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:16:00AM -0500, visyz@visyz.net wrote:
> So, I think I'm one of the 3 people in the world who have a Mobile
> Pentium III (Coppermine).
> 
> The other two aren't making any noise about how this sucker's SpeedStep
> is supposed to work. Any suggestions?

I receive more emails on this topics than 'two'...

> Heh. Yeah. anyways. I have an HP Omnibook 4150B, which amounts to the
> aforementioned coppermine (with speeds from 233-450mhz), on a
> 440BX/ZX/DX bridge. I tried out the test program to see if it's usable,
> and while 1 bit did change, it was in GOP 0x0034, not 0x0038. Or maybe
> that's the other way around. Basically, the one that was supposed to
> change didn't, and the one that wasn't, did.

What program?  Mine?  Also are you sure you looked in the web page.
It's up to the manufacturer to *decide* what GPO to use.  So there
is *no* possibility to know the correct GPO pin.

> Are those in charge of the cpufreq development interested in getting the
> dump still,

Yes, or else I would not publish it, you know.  Just that this dump
should be send to me privately, not in the cpufreq developper list.

> or have you moved on to bigger and better (tm) processors?

Actually, I never owned a laptop with a PIII coppermine with
a 440BX/ZX/DX bridge FYI.  I had a PIII coppermine, but with
a ich southbridge.

Cheers,

-- 
Ducrot Bruno

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