From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266436AbUHBKHr (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 06:07:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266425AbUHBKHq (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 06:07:46 -0400 Received: from adsl-67-117-73-34.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net ([67.117.73.34]:5136 "EHLO muru.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266436AbUHBKHm (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 06:07:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 03:07:01 -0700 From: Tony Lindgren To: Randall Nortman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: MSI K8N Neo + powernow-k8: ACPI info is worse than BIOS PST Message-ID: <20040802100658.GC10412@atomide.com> References: <20040731140008.GJ4108@li2-47.members.linode.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040731140008.GJ4108@li2-47.members.linode.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Randall Nortman [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