From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965158AbVHZSDy (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:03:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965159AbVHZSDy (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:03:54 -0400 Received: from zeus2.kernel.org ([204.152.191.36]:12475 "EHLO zeus2.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965158AbVHZSDw (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:03:52 -0400 Message-ID: <430F5901.2070606@inov.pt> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:01:37 +0100 From: Jose Miguel Goncalves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: miura@da-cha.org Subject: Problem with cpufreq on Geode GX1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I'm trying to use cpufreq on my Geode GX1 board with linux-2.6.12.5, but, while everything seems OK, i.e., I can change from performance to powersave governor and back and /proc/cpuinfo reports me frequency changes, I can get no effective frequency/CPU power change because I check it with the Whetstone benchmark and it allways give me the same value (~100 MWIPS). Any ideas from were could be the problem? Some additional info follows: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor performance $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CyrixInstead cpu family : 5 model : 9 model name : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 300.672 cache size : 16 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu tsc msr cx8 cmov mmx cxmmx bogomips : 591.87 $ echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CyrixInstead cpu family : 5 model : 9 model name : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 37.095 cache size : 16 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu tsc msr cx8 cmov mmx cxmmx bogomips : 73.02 Best regards, Jose Goncalves