Re: a couple of powernow-k8 questions

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I'm running an athlon64 3000+ on an epox-mainboard.
> 
> after some bios-upgrades through their support I'm getting at least a bit
> of powernow-support ;)
> 
> Through startup I'm getting these messages now:
> 
> powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b)
> powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV)
> powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
> powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
> powernow-k8: cpu_init done, current fid 0xc, vid 0x2
> ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
> 
> 
> Just to confirm: does that mean only these modes are supported? 
> Wasn't there something down to 800 MHz for the athlon64-processors?

I'd say bios problem. Only AMD people know for sure. 

> Is this a problem of the mainbord (aka still their bios ;)) or of
> the driver?
> Any way to workaround this?

Look into archives for methods how to override.

								Pavel
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