Hi Marc,
> Why is cpufreq on my laptop not available? I know it works with window$.
> My laptop has an Intel P3 speedstep cpu which supports 600Mhz and 500Mhz
> clock frequency. Will it be supported in the future?
>
> CPU model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
There's a small bug in speedstep.c which causes the initialization process
to fail on all Coppermines. A fix for this had been sent to Linus already;
it's also attached.
Unfortunately, this won't change much on your notebook. Now the line in
dmesg will say "Intel SpeedStep for this chipset not (yet) available." as
Intel continues to withhold information on how to use SpeedStep on 440BX/MX
chipsets (and even removes documentation which had been publicly available on
their servers). However, in an effort mainly lead by Bruno Ducrot,
reverse-engineering is making progress. SpeedStep already works on some
440BX/MX based notebooks, on others -like the one I'm using- it's still a
mystery.
During the next days, I'll make a patch and further information available.
Dominik
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