From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Sven Geggus <geg@iitb.fhg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing CPU Speed while running Linux
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:12:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010614131220.A36@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010613143536.A1323@iitb.fhg.de> <3B2768E1.2B7E064C@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B2768E1.2B7E064C@redhat.com>; from arjanv@redhat.com on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:21:37PM +0100
Hi
> > on my Elan410 based System it is very easy to change the CPU clock speed by
> > means od two outb commands.
> >
> > I was wondering, if it does some harm to the Kernel if the CPU is
> > reprogrammed using a different CPU clock speed, while the system is up and
> > running.
>
> I have a module for the K6 PowerNow which allows you to do
>
> echo 450 > /proc/sys/cpu/0/frequency
>
> and does the right thing wrt udelay / bogomips etc..
> I can dig it out if you want.. sounds like this should be a more generic
> thing.
Can you dig that out? I'd like to take a look.
[Of course, problem is *not* solved: you still have short time when
kernel runs with wrong bogomips.]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-16 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-13 12:35 Changing CPU Speed while running Linux Sven Geggus
2001-06-13 13:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-06-14 13:12 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-06-16 10:46 ` arjan
2001-06-16 13:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-16 13:56 ` Ian Stirling
2001-06-13 13:41 ` Magnus Sandberg
2001-06-13 13:49 ` Dave Jones
2001-06-13 22:23 Dieter Nützel
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