From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: linuxkernellist@wonderclown.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MSI K8N Neo + powernow-k8: ACPI info is worse than BIOS PST
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:34:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040802173401.GA816@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3n01dso1i.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org>
* Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> [040802 05:49]:
> Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> writes:
> >
> > 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.
>
> No, it won't. It will fail on the new/upcomming CPUs with 1Ghz HyperTransport.
> The minimum frequency cannot be lower than the HyperTransport speed.
>
> And for others sometimes laptop batteries are not designed to support
> more than 800Mhz.
OK, that's good to know.
> Overall hardcoding such tables is imho a bad idea, unless you
> *really* know what you're doing.
Yes, sounds like it's not needed any longer. The ACPI tables seem to
work fine.
Tony
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2004-08-02 12:49 ` MSI K8N Neo + powernow-k8: ACPI info is worse than BIOS PST Andi Kleen
2004-08-02 17:34 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2004-07-31 14:00 Randall Nortman
2004-08-02 10:07 ` Tony Lindgren
2004-08-02 11:46 ` Randall Nortman
2004-08-02 12:43 ` Tony Lindgren
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