Re: proper enabling of AMD K7 power saving

[Malte Gell <malte.gell-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>]

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 00:37, Florian Hühn wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:11:53 +0200
>
> Malte Gell <malte.gell-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Have a look at http://vcool.occludo.net/VC_Linux.html or try the
> kernelpatch on the page you mentioned. It runs great for several
> years now on my desktop pc. On
> http://vcool.occludo.net/VC_Theory.html there is a short explanation
> how it works and what it is.
It seems VCool just does the same what the "hack" from the Athlon 
Powersaving Howto does. Maybe a list would be fine that shows all 
mainboards which do not allow C2 or more and need such a tweak, so 
users can see what they need to get a cooler CPU. And hopefully it puts 
some pressure on the mobo makers :-)

> > Why the f*** do mainboard makers not offer a BIOS switch to enable
> > this?
>
> Some ppl say it's because some early athlos had problems with
> powersaving. In fact i have never seen or heared about such a system.
The K7 with a 1/2 multiplier are said to have this problem. But this 
problem seem to be solved long ago, my Duron is a 750 Mhz and I have 
absolutely no stability problems since I started using C2 some days 
ago.

> Sorry for my bad english.
> PS: eh... gmx.DE? Warum zum Teufel schreib ich das auf englisch?!
> Damn.
Because wir sind in a international Mailingliste hier ;-)

Malte



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