On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:29:38PM -0600, Calvin Dodge wrote: > I'm the proud owner of a new "Lima" Athlon64, and was annoyed to see > that powernow-k8 didn't recognize it. > > It turns out AMD bumped the revision number from 6 to 7, and > powernow-k8 doesn't like that. > > At the suggestion of powernow-k8's maintainer (Mark Langsdorf) I > edited line 49 of powernow-k8.h and changed: > > #define CPUID_XMOD_REV_G 0x00060000 > > to > > #define CPUID_XMOD_REV_H 0x00070000 > > then changed CPUID_XMOD_REV_G in powernow-k8.c to CPUID_XMOD_REV_H > > (actually, he just said "bump it to 7", but it seemed logical to > increment the revision letter, too) > > This worked, and the cpuspeed daemon lowered the CPU frequency and > voltage when idling. > > Anyway, Mark said he'd submitted a patch, but it hadn't made its way > to the main kernel source yet. Is there any chance the Fedora kernel > maintainers might add such a patch to the next kernel? I've just pushed this to Linus for .22, and will get it into .21-stable too. We'll pick it up in Fedora through those trees soon. Thanks, Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
