Bug 384281: acpi-cpufreq reports ENODEV on Q6600

[davide rossetti]

On Feb 20, 2008 4:11 PM, Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008 09:56:53 am davide rossetti wrote:
> > As soon as I unwrapped my brand new Core 2 Quad, I discovered that
> > acpi-cpufreq seems not able to offer its services :( the point is why
> > ? is there anything (code, debugging, testing) I can do to support it
> > (or its BIOS) ?
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384281
>
> Your cpu (core 2 quad Q6600) is definitely supported, so I'm about 99% certain
> the fault lays with the bios. HP has been notorious about shipping bioses
> with broken linux cpufreq support... I'd look for a bios update, and if you
> can't find one, yell at HP. :)

isn't there something low-level, driving the CPU/chipset registers directly ?


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