Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:43:37 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com,
       cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, davej@codemonkey.org.uk
Subject: Re: bug? acpi p-state + ondemand keeps dropping max freq
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:42:00 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Sat 2008-06-07 14:54:35, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:39:18 +0200
> > Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > > > # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq
> > > > 800000
> > > > # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq
> > > > 800000
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This renders my Dothan to utterly poor speeds. (standard T43)
> > > > 
> > > > performance cpufreq governor makes no difference - I still can't
> > > > change the frequency upper/lower values.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I have similar problem in Novell bugzilla, on very different
> > > hw:
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396311
> 
> > are either of you running gnome-power-manager or kpowersaved ?
> > sometimes these programs (and more likely, the patches added by a
> > distro maintainer who doesn't fully realize how power works) tend to
> > muck with kernel settings around CPU frequency that they have
> > absolutely no business touching...
> 
> In novel bugzilla case ignore_ppc=1 helped, so it seems to be BIOS
> problem, not userland's...

well as long as the user doesn't use this for production use... the
BIOS often reduces frequencies available to deal with thermal
situations, so it's not a good idea to ignore that.
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