Re: amd athon-xp mobile and acpi
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:13:58AM +0000, Paulo Lopes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a amd athon-xp mobile laptop (it's a fujitsu-siements amilo A7600)
> and i've been compiling the kernel for it but i can't get throttling
> states enabled. I wan't to slow down the cpu in order to cool down the
> processor (and my legs :-). I've been using kernel 2.4.22 from
> www.kernel.org and acpi patch for 2.4.22 from acpi.sourceforge.net it's
> the 2003-10-03 version. Does ACPI processor module support AMD
> processores?
No.
> or is it only for Intel?
No.
> ACPI seems to work because it is
> used to shutdown this laptop, i couldn't shut it down with APM.
>
> Is there any special patch or (patches) for AMD processors?
Yes. Google for cpufreq, and do something like that:
cvs -d:pserver:cvs@pubcvs.arm.linux.org.uk:/mnt/src/cvsroot co -rLINUX_2_4 cpufreq
cd cpufreq
./patchin.sh /path/to/your/kernel/source
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