Re: BIOS Flash changes PowerNOW frequencies?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

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> I'm running 2.6.0 on an HP Pavilion ze4420 Athlon version (lspci -v below).  I
> recently flashed the BIOS (hoping against all odds for suspend to ram
> capability) and the CPU frequencies discovered by PowerNOW (K7) has changed.
> This is obviously caused by the BIOS update, but the stupid question of the day
> is "Why?". If the CPU and chipset support both sets of frequencies with
> different BIOS, wouldn't the _real_ set of supported frequencies be the union
> of the 2?

Well, maybe the chipset does not properly support it after all?

Anyway, you might want to simply implant old tables into kernel, and
use them... Possibly even doing union.
									Pavel
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