Re: cpuinfo shows wrong MHz value

Matthew Garrett
2009-02-16T19:01:22Z

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:52:37PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:13:15PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> >> AFAIK p4-clockmode is still not synchronized with ACPI throttling?
> >
> > It ought to work fine with any systems using MSR-based throttling.
>
> So what's your take on this particular bug report then Matthew? Is this a
> regression that should be tracked down and fixed, or is this a case where
> the user should just not be using the module?

It's a bug and it should be fixed. My recollection is that we've hit
this kind of thing before - the frequency calculation code is awkward to
get right on this hardware.

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