From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266490AbUHBReO (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:34:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266670AbUHBReO (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:34:14 -0400 Received: from adsl-67-117-73-34.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net ([67.117.73.34]:4114 "EHLO muru.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266490AbUHBReM (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:34:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:34:01 -0700 From: Tony Lindgren To: Andi Kleen Cc: linuxkernellist@wonderclown.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: MSI K8N Neo + powernow-k8: ACPI info is worse than BIOS PST Message-ID: <20040802173401.GA816@atomide.com> References: <2o2IK-8gu-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <2oI5h-3A8-7@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-URL: http://www.muru.com/ http://www.atomide.com X-Accept-Language: fi en X-Location: USA, California, San Francisco Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andi Kleen [040802 05:49]: > Tony Lindgren 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