jan, On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Jan Beulich<JBeulich@novell.com> 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 ! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org