Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300

Adrian Bunk
2008-08-12T19:29:08Z

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:44:28AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:28:39 +0300
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > yes there is.. for cases where there is overtemperature. Think of
> > > it as the emergency break in the subway. You really don't want to
> > > use it but when you need it you're glad it's there.
> >
> > But this only helps when the cooling is working but not good enough,
> > for the classic "fan broken" case it won't cool down enough.
>
> I would call this an unclassified statement for which you have no data
> to show that it's correct, at least for Intel cpus in general.
>...

Sorry, I was a bit too surprised after your description.

cu
Adrian

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