From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: chipset dependant? Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:21:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20060811232148.GA28540@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: cpufreq-bounces@lists.linux.org.uk Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org@lists.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: A van Staalduijnen Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:21:14PM +0200, A van Staalduijnen wrote: > At home I am running an old box, running an Athlon XP on the old VIA KT133 > (not KT133A) chipset. Since this box is mostly idle I am considering doing > the old Athlon bridge hack, to turn the cpu into an Athlon XP-M, thinking > I could be using cpufreq then, in order dynamically scale frequencies. > > I wonder though if it would suffice to turn the cpu into a 'mobile', or if > it would require a different chipset on the motherboard as well (as for > Intels)? > > Any chance cpufreq will work after modding the CPU, or would it be > useless? useless. You have no variable VRM on your motherboard, likely no BIOS tables, and at best you'll just get a new CPU string in /proc/cpuinfo. At worst, you'll get a dead cpu. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk