Re: cpufreq on Pentium M

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 07:18:03AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> It should turn up in 2.5 sometime real soon, and at some point, maybe
> someone will backport it.

I do hope so.  I can be a risk taker but I've learned that running a
development kernel on a laptop does not make for a good travel experience. 
(When you've got no 'net connection and no backup device handy, getting the
latest patch for the IDE driver isn't fun <g>)

> Looks like missing cache descriptors. Grab x86info[1] and mail me
> the output of x86info -c

Here ya go:

heinrich:~# x86info -c
x86info v1.11.  Dave Jones 2001, 2002
Feedback to <davej@suse.de>.

Found 1 CPU
Family: 6 Model: 9 Stepping: 5 Type: 0
CPU Model: Unknown CPU Original OEM
unknown TLB/cache descriptor:
        0xb0
unknown TLB/cache descriptor:
        0xb3
Instruction TLB: 4MB pages, fully associative, 2 entries
unknown TLB/cache descriptor:
        0x87
unknown TLB/cache descriptor:
        0x30
Data TLB: 4MB pages, 4-way associative, 8 entries
unknown TLB/cache descriptor:
        0x2c