Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8 max speed sanity check

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Following is a little patch to do a sanity check on the max speed and 
> voltage values provided by the bios.
> 
> Some buggy bioses provide bad values if the cpu changes, for example, in 
> my case the bios claims the max cpu speed is 1600MHz, while it's running at
> 1800MHz. (Cheapo Emachines m6805 you know...) This could also happen on 
> machines where the cpu is upgraded.
> 
> These checks should be safe, as they only change things if the machine is
> already running at a higher speed than the bios claims.
> 

Someone should really bug them to fix their BIOS. (BTW does keyboard work
ok for you?) 
Going though ACPI solves this, and I have perhaps better
patch to hardcode right values...
				Pavel

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