From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261565AbVAIIJF (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 03:09:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262266AbVAIIJF (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 03:09:05 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.207]:53597 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261565AbVAIIJB (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 03:09:01 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hlivuZ1sk9Kp9v85BnWk5Uc+IJE8BO9E9bF/ZpvVf3Te955Bs++vS8NWZ/JOpntwkbiTrucu1RnHwFdoYcRQnY3xeB5nd8waM9LVGbC6kGGpgl9YSgsyVUf5GwjE6p/1Qp5Aw98h9B1Dz/hXS9O3iM5N919zQdBnG5tmFe2hCaY= Message-ID: <1ab49290050109000913bb0b2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 00:09:01 -0800 From: Matthew Trent Reply-To: Matthew Trent To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: CPUFreq chokes on Sempron Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When loading the powernow-k8 module on any recent kernel (I've tried 2.6.8 through 2.6.10) on my Sempron laptop, I see: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09e) powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV) powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x18 (950 mV) cpu_init done, current fid 0x8, vid 0x4 powernow-k8: vid trans failed, vid 0x3, curr 0x4 powernow-k8: transition frequency failed powernow-k8: vid trans failed, vid 0x3, curr 0x4 powernow-k8: transition frequency failed ... and many more of those 'vid trans failed' errors (one every time there's an attempted freq change). There is a small patch available at... http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3585.html ...which seems to fix the problem. Should this be included into the kernel officially? -- Matthew Trent