From: "S K" <nospamnoham@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas Renninger" <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: "Alan Jenkins" <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>,
"Zhao Yakui" <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:28:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <514e099a0808100128u303207clcb22292db2f0cc59@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808092059.47863.trenn@suse.de>
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> wrote:
> On Friday 08 August 2008 08:23:25 pm S K wrote:
>> > Try updating the BIOS.
>> > I expect your CPU is too new and the BIOS cannot export the correct freq
>> > values for the specific CPU yet.
>> >
>> > Thomas
>>
>> The BIOS is already at the latest version :( Is the above comment the
>> only possible reason for the issue?
>
> It is very likely.
But Windows XP is able to do the scaling properly. So how can it be a
BIOS issue? While reading about the Foxconn BIOS fiasco that happened
recently a kernel dev (forgot his name) stated that Linux tries to
emulate Windows for ACPI operations.
So I'm guessing this is a kernel bug.
-SK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-10 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-03 10:00 S K
2008-08-03 10:31 ` none
2008-08-04 5:06 ` S K
2008-08-07 9:35 ` S K
2008-08-07 19:24 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-08-08 1:32 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-08-08 4:53 ` S K
2008-08-08 8:41 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-08-08 10:10 ` S K
2008-08-08 10:43 ` S K
2008-08-08 12:30 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-08 18:23 ` S K
2008-08-09 18:59 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-09 19:30 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-10 8:28 ` S K [this message]
2008-08-11 1:33 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-08-11 4:44 ` S K
2008-08-11 5:24 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-08-11 5:24 ` S K
2008-08-11 7:00 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-11 10:55 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-11 13:15 ` S K
2008-08-11 13:23 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-12 5:43 ` S K
2008-08-11 11:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-11 11:38 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-11 11:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-11 14:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-11 14:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-11 14:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-11 14:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-11 16:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-11 16:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-11 16:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-11 16:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-12 19:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-11 19:33 ` Dominik Brodowski
2008-08-11 23:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-12 19:03 ` Dominik Brodowski
2008-08-12 19:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
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