AuthenticAMD, cpufreq and SunFire X2200

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:57:00PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I'm trying to find out why there is no frequency info.
> ie:
> sunfire> sysctl dev.cpu.0
> dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
> dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
> dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.P001
> dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
> dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
> dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0
> dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1
> dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00%
> 
> so any help/insight is most welcome.
> 
> BTW, its 7.0-stable

Is the cpufreq device in your kernel config?  Do the SunFire X2200's
provide any sort of frequency data in their ACPI tables?  Are there BIOS
settings which are relevant to this board enabling Cool'n'Quiet or
anything else of that nature (thus inducing the use of powernow(4))?

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