Pentium-M - not recognized?

[Nate Lawson]

Eric Anderson wrote:
> Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>> Eric Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> Eric Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eric Anderson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have a Dell Latitude D610 laptop, and my kernel says:
>>>>>
>>>>> CPU claims to support Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
>>>>> Please update driver or contact the maintainer.
>>>>> cpu_vendor = GenuineIntel msr = 6120e2606000e26, bus_clk = 64
>>>>>
>>>>> What does that mean to me?  How can I fix it?
>>>>>
>>>>> All my various info (full dmesg, acpi dumps, etc) are available here:
>>>>> http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/
>>
>> Ok, I've committed a patch to est.c that should add support of acpi 
>> detection of EST parameters.  Please give it a try.  It probably won't 
>> work on all systems since it appears some systems need _PDC support 
>> (something I'm working on).  Actually, if yours doesn't work with est, 
>> it should work with acpi_perf.
>>
> 
> Rebuilt everything, and I'm not certain anything is different.  Latest 
> output is at the URL above. 
> As a side note - when this laptop goes from AC to battery, the machine 
> hangs for 10 seconds.  From battery to AC, there is no hang.  I think it 
> might be some kind of interrupt storm (USB?).

No idea, probably the EC timing out.

I don't understand why acpi_perf doesn't attach on your system.  Have 
you added a hint to disable it?  Can you boot without cpufreq.ko loaded 
and see if you get an acpi_perf0?

-- 
Nate