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jan,

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Jan Beulich<JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >       (1) is this a bug, or expected behavior for OC'ing?
> >       (2) if a bug, is it in kernel, or BIOS?
>
> BIOS: Both this
>
> > > >       available frequency steps: 2.80 GHz, 2.10 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 800 MHz
>
> and (presumably, as you didn't show it) /var/log/messages would confirm
> this. The identifiers for the corresponding frequencies are stored in ACPI
> tables and/or MSRs, so if the BIOS "supported" overclocking, it would have
> to update these tables/registers (the actual frequencies get calculated
> from these identifiers).
>
> The value /proc/cpuinfo reports is simply one of the frequencies reported
> as available.

thanks for clarifying how this works.  i'll take it up with the mobo vendor.

thanks again !
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