Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300

From: Thomas Renninger
Date: Sat Aug 09 2008 - 15:14:12 EST


Hi,

just that in case you try out kernels...

On Saturday 09 August 2008 08:59:47 pm Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Friday 08 August 2008 08:23:25 pm S K wrote:

> Mark Langsdorf reported some acpi breakage in .27-rc1, this could also be
> the reason.
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> I got a regression when updated from 2.6.27-rc1 ro
> 2.6.27-rc2.  The noticeable symptom is the powernow-k8
> driver stopped working because the call to
> acpi_processor_register_performance() is returning
> -EINVAL.
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So it's rc2 not rc1, but AFAIK your report should be older than rc2.

There also was a similar report from Laurence Darby <ldarby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>.
He still posted on the old cpufreq list.
Subject: Core 2 Duo E8400 stepping 6 not recognised

A BIOS update helped.
You may be able to google this out and compare his CPU_FREQ_DEBUG logs.

Thomas
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