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SubjectRe: cpufreq and kernel >2.6.15.6 is limited
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:25:26PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
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> > It seems that any kernel on my Dell Inspiron 5100 after 2.6.15.6
> > (including 2.6.17-rc5) 'breaks' my cpufreq in that up to and including
> > 2.6.15.6 I can scale between 300MHz-2.4GHz, but after (starting with
> > 2.6.16) I can only scale between 2.1GHz and 2.4GHz.
> >
> > I've attached the files, sorted by kernel, I assume may be helpful. Let
> > me know if you need any more.
>
> It may have worked in the past, but the CPU has an errata which makes
> it an unsafe operation to scale below 2GHz.

There was some discussion about whether this was correct or not in this
thread:

http://groups.google.ca/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/d5b5905d7f1aa221/66c41ee3a26583b3

Did this ever get resolved? From my reading of the N60 erratum,
disabling the 12.5% duty cycle sounds like this should be enough,
disabling everything under 2GHz is not necessary..

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