Re: AMD Bobcat cpufreq

From: Joonas Saarinen
Date: Fri Oct 18 2013 - 09:19:58 EST


Borislav Petkov [bp@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:
Once you've done that successfully, you need to run as root:

$ cd tools/power/cpupower/
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./cpupower frequency-info

This is what I get:

analyzing CPU 0:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1000 MHz
available frequency steps: 1000 MHz, 800 MHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave, performance
current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1000 MHz.
The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 1000 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
cpufreq stats: 1000 MHz:-nan%, 800 MHz:-nan% (646)
boost state support:
Supported: yes
Active: yes

It's promising that the boost state support is "supported and active" but the output is still kind of sparse. There's no mention about
specific turbo states, nor do I get /proc/cpuinfo or that cpupower tool
ever to show an evidence that the CPU is going to 1333MHz. On Windows
CPU-Z showed it constantly visiting that state.

That's all for now.

Joonas

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