Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754641AbYHJI2U (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:28:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752706AbYHJI2E (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:28:04 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.235]:41809 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752384AbYHJI2B (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:28:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=OWuSoidP4oxjGAiyC7ndr8FkV2P9rK85pR/+NQEEzU5KUCCahe/Xdh5hQPOfTpZYc0 Id6b/9hHXmcdjrqfxgMxoIm8zv7NGS8idV1BUwpuMOH93t+ynOQqIlJ2Ll6XswkMWeLz beEQBvKzTx0kM2fkBcWb1K4tP/TotwWBkXTug= Message-ID: <514e099a0808100128u303207clcb22292db2f0cc59@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:28:00 -0700 From: "S K" To: "Thomas Renninger" Subject: Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300 Cc: "Alan Jenkins" , "Zhao Yakui" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200808092059.47863.trenn@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <514e099a0808030300u140a0ae7m92a2e7294f39f7b7@mail.gmail.com> <200808081430.43012.trenn@suse.de> <200808092059.47863.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 961 Lines: 26 On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Renninger 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 -- 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/