Re: cpufreq and kernel >2.6.15.6 is limited

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:25:26PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
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 > It seems that any kernel on my Dell Inspiron 5100 after 2.6.15.6
 > (including 2.6.17-rc5) 'breaks' my cpufreq in that up to and including
 > 2.6.15.6 I can scale between 300MHz-2.4GHz, but after (starting with
 > 2.6.16) I can only scale between 2.1GHz and 2.4GHz.
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 > I've attached the files, sorted by kernel, I assume may be helpful. Let
 > me know if you need any more.

It may have worked in the past, but the CPU has an errata which makes
it an unsafe operation to scale below 2GHz.

		Dave

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