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Bug#360773: reproducible in 2.6.18?



On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:49:06AM +0100, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, dann frazier wrote:
> 
> >hey Giuseppe,
> > Can you reproduce this with the 2.6.18 kernel in sid?
> 
> Unfortunately yes: with the latest kernel (2.6.18-3-686) I get:
> 
> alien:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq# cat 
> scaling_available_frequencies
> 2333275 2666600
> 
> While under a kernel <= 2.6.15 I can scale from 333MHz up to 2,66GHz.
> I don't know if this is due to a bug in my cpu model, and the kernel
> must do not scale on other frequencies to avoid problems.
> 
> Under 2.6.15 I'm not experiencing any trobules (the system is stable, 
> DMA works well...).
> 
> In your opinion can this depend on some microcode related issue? I've
> installed microcode.ctl and my CPU gets "upgraded" on boot. Does
> cpufreq modules get loaded before this? Should instead I try to load them 
> after the upgrade?
> 
> Keeping the cpu hot by running costantly at 2,33GHz is not an option for 
> me (this is a laptop).

there are 2.6.19 linux images on the buildserver trunk apt:
please check them:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel

if not you should use that .config to build latest 2.6.20-rcX and
if still failing report it in bugzilla.kernel.org

thanks for your feedback.

-- 
maks



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