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

Zhao Yakui
2008-08-08T01:18:26Z

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 02:35 -0700, S K wrote:
> Anyone care to help?
>
Will you please confirm whether the acpi_cpufreq driver is used on your
machine?
Please enable CONFIG_CPUFREQ_DEBUG in kernel configuration and boot the
system with "cpufreq.debug=7".
After the system is booted, please attach the output of dmesg.

please attach the output of acpidump using the latest pmtools at
http://www.lesswatts.org/patches/linux_acpi/

Of course you can open a new bug in bugzilla and attach the output of
dmesg, acpidump, lspci -vxxx.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI

Thanks.
> -SK
>
> 2008/8/3 S K <nospamnoham@gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm attaching the acpidump output. Can someone (ACPI guys??) please
> > me help figure this out?
> > Is there any other info that's needed to debug this?
> >
> > I can be a tester for this and even do some development within the
> > limits of my understanding.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > SK
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 3:31 AM, none <aj504@student.cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> S K wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I have an Intel Core 2 Quad and running kernel
> >>> 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686. cpufreq doesn't seem to work. The cpufreq
> >>> scaling monitor in Gnome says CPU Freq scaling is not supported in my
> >>> CPU. The CPU can run at 2.0 and 2.5 GHz but mine always runs at 2.5
> >>> GHz in Linux.
> >>>
> >>> So I checked /sys and there is no cpufreq dir in /sys/...
> >>>
> >>> # ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/
> >>> cpu0 cpu1 cpu2 cpu3 cpuidle sched_mc_power_savings
> >>> # ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/
> >>> current_driver current_governor_ro
> >>>
> >>> I have no clue what cpuidle directory is for.
> >>>
> >>> I added cpufreq.debug=7 in kernel boot params and saw the following in
> >>> the dmesg:
> >>>
> >>> speedstep-smi: No supported Intel CPU detected.
> >>> cpufreq-core: CPU 0: _PPC is 0 - frequency not limited
> >>> cpufreq-core: CPU 3: _PPC is 0 - frequency not limited
> >>> cpufreq-core: CPU 1: _PPC is 0 - frequency not limited
> >>> cpufreq-core: CPU 2: _PPC is 0 - frequency not limited
> >>> cpuidle: using governor ladder
> >>> cpuidle: using governor menu
> >>>
> >>> I looked at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c and it seems
> >>> to detect only Pentium IIIs.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone know what files have the cpufreq code for Intel Core 2?
> >>> Does cpufreq support Intel Core 2 Quads? Especially the Q9300? If not,
> >>> anything I can do to help?
> >>
> >> I have an Intel Core 2 Duo and it uses the ACPI cpufreq driver; your
> >> Quad should do the same. So this is likely an ACPI/BIOS issue.
> >>
> >> If you ask ACPI people they will ask you to post the output of acpidump.
> >> Also you should probably check if you have a BIOS option that needs to be
> >> enabled for this to work.
> >>
> >> BTW, cpuidle is something quite different, it is about how to save power
> >> when CPU is doing nothing (i.e. idle :-). Cpu frequency scaling is how to
> >> save power when CPU is working (but doesn't need to run flat out).
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> >
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