From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: slash@dotnetslash.net
Subject: Re: BIOS Flash changes PowerNOW frequencies?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:03:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040115120300.GA12963@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040111175610.GA26855@dotnetslash.net>
Hi!
> I'm not currently subscribed. Please cc: me on responses.
>
> I'm running 2.6.0 on an HP Pavilion ze4420 Athlon version (lspci -v below). I
> recently flashed the BIOS (hoping against all odds for suspend to ram
> capability) and the CPU frequencies discovered by PowerNOW (K7) has changed.
> This is obviously caused by the BIOS update, but the stupid question of the day
> is "Why?". If the CPU and chipset support both sets of frequencies with
> different BIOS, wouldn't the _real_ set of supported frequencies be the union
> of the 2?
Well, maybe the chipset does not properly support it after all?
Anyway, you might want to simply implant old tables into kernel, and
use them... Possibly even doing union.
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-15 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-11 17:56 Mark W. Alexander
2004-01-14 5:08 ` Dave Jones
2004-01-15 20:48 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-15 12:03 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-01-15 13:32 ` Mark W. Alexander
2004-01-15 21:04 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-15 21:24 ` Pavel Machek
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