Re: p4-clockmod not working in 2.6.16

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Apr 05 2006 - 09:59:44 EST


On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 13:02 +0100, Tim Phipps wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 Apr 2006 11:47, Tim Phipps wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 06:20, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 06:57 +0100, Edgar Toernig wrote:
> > > > | N60. Processor May Hang under Certain Frequencies and 12.5%
> > > > | STPCLK# Duty Cycle
> > > > |
> > > > | Problem: If a system de-asserts STPCLK# at a 12.5% duty cycle,
> > > > | the processor is running below 2 GHz, and the processor thermal
> > > > | control circuit (TCC) on-demand clock modulation is active, the
> > > > | processor may hang. This erratum does not occur under the automatic
> > > > | mode of the TCC.
> >
> Here's a patch to 2.6.17-rc1 that disables the 12.5% DC on any CPU that has
> N60. The frequencies in the errata are a bit vague so this is the safe bet
> and it only disables one of the eight frequencies rather than the current
> behaviour which disables all of mine!

Works for me. Perhaps you should update...
dprintk("has errata -- disabling frequencies lower than 2ghz\n");
...,slap a Signed-off-by: on it and see if it flys.

-Mike

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