Re: MSI K8N Neo + powernow-k8: ACPI info is worse than BIOS PST

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 05:11:42 EST


* Randall Nortman <linuxkernellist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [040731 07:01]:
>
> If anybody qualified to hack this code is interested in creating a
> real workaround for BIOSes like this, I offer my system (and my time,
> as I cannot give remote access) for testing. I would suggest adding a
> compile-time or load-time option to prefer the BIOS over ACPI (as in
> powernow-k7, I think), and maybe a compile-time option to use Tony's
> hardcoded tables.

Just to clarify a bit, my patch only uses the 800MHz hardcoded, which
should work on all AMD64 processors. The max value used is the current
running value.

Tony
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