Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753152AbXKMPRk (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:17:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753840AbXKMPRd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:17:33 -0500 Received: from outbound-blu.frontbridge.com ([65.55.251.16]:45216 "EHLO outbound5-blu-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753637AbXKMPRc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:17:32 -0500 X-BigFish: VP X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 163.181.251.8;Service: EHS X-Server-Uuid: DF9F24A0-1A5C-40A5-8B0A-DEB676E72ECF X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: powernow-k8 and non-standard multipliers Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:06:16 -0600 Message-ID: <1449F58C868D8D4E9C72945771150BDF020770FF@SAUSEXMB1.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <47393521.6060207@overt.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: powernow-k8 and non-standard multipliers Thread-Index: AcgltZKJaEOyM8LrQVupuQENOlXccwAUOthg References: <47393521.6060207@overt.org> From: "Langsdorf, Mark" To: "Philip Langdale" , "LKML" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Nov 2007 15:06:17.0288 (UTC) FILETIME=[BD9CAC80:01C82606] X-WSS-ID: 6B2762E307S2380191-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 27 > I've just upgraded to an X2 5000+ black edition. This model > doesn't have a multiple lock and I tried bumping the multiplier > up, which is perfectly stable, but which causes powernow-k8 to > fail to load. I also tried with the updated patch you posted > at the beginning of october (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/9/224) > which didn't make a difference. > > Is it possible to make the driver work in this situation or does > a non-standard multipler inherently mean that powernow stops > working? The standard PowerNow! driver, by design, will stop working in this situation. I'm not going to support a driver that allows non-standard multipliers because it could cause a lot of hard to debug maintenance issues. -Mark Langsdorf Operating System Research Center AMD - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/