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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Randall Nortman <linuxkernellist@wonderclown.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MSI K8N Neo + powernow-k8: ACPI info is worse than BIOS PST
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 03:07:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040802100658.GC10412@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040731140008.GJ4108@li2-47.members.linode.com>

* Randall Nortman <linuxkernellist@wonderclown.com> [040731 07:01]:
> 
> If anybody qualified to hack this code is interested in creating a
> real workaround for BIOSes like this, I offer my system (and my time,
> as I cannot give remote access) for testing.  I would suggest adding a
> compile-time or load-time option to prefer the BIOS over ACPI (as in
> powernow-k7, I think), and maybe a compile-time option to use Tony's
> hardcoded tables.

Just to clarify a bit, my patch only uses the 800MHz hardcoded, which
should work on all AMD64 processors. The max value used is the current
running value.

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-02 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-31 14:00 MSI K8N Neo + powernow-k8: ACPI info is worse than BIOS PST Randall Nortman
2004-08-02 10:07 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2004-08-02 11:46   ` Randall Nortman
2004-08-02 12:43     ` Tony Lindgren
     [not found] <2o2IK-8gu-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2oI5h-3A8-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-02 12:49   ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-02 17:34     ` Tony Lindgren

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