From: Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Voltage tweaking in powernow_k8
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:03:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46292aa8.20f70c71.2add.ffffa105@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070420185533.GE13939@redhat.com>
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 02:55:33PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> I'm not enthusiastic about merging this code at all.
> The big problem I see is that a lot of the reasons people want
> to do this is "The bios say xyz, but the datasheet says it can do xyz+-1"
Yes, I must admit so. It seems that many people just want to do heavy
overclock. And it can be difficult to detect a broken BIOS... though
I've discovered an interesting method: when the customer support tells
you to install crystalcpuid (a Windows utility) and then they reply that
Linux is not a supported OS, then there are high chance that their BIOS
is broken :-)
There seems to be some comments on certain laptops giving overpower to
Turions, but I can't confirm how many of them are real BIOS bugs. I will
probably continue with this as an unofficial patch. Thank you anyway
for looking into this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-15 17:18 Voltage tweaking in powernow_k8 Roberto Gordo Saez
2007-04-16 13:55 ` Langsdorf, Mark
2007-04-16 15:25 ` Roberto Gordo Saez
2007-04-20 18:35 ` Langsdorf, Mark
2007-04-20 18:55 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-20 21:03 ` Roberto Gordo Saez [this message]
2007-04-20 21:57 ` Dave Jones
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