On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:01:53PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Saturday, July 21, 2012 09:09:08 AM Ariel Norberto Bellino wrote: > > cpufreq-info shows this in my laptop: > > hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.53 GHz > > available frequency steps: *2.53 GHz, 2.53 GHz*, 1.60 GHz, 800 MHz > This should be a typical and well-known BIOS setup. > For some reason some BIOSes export the highest frequency twice (or with > one HZ difference or similar). Linux kernel should be able to handle this > gracefully. This is nothing to worry about. I think this is because of the so-called Turbo Boost. I recall at least couple of Intel specifications or white papers in which it was adviced that BIOS vendors should report the "turbo state" as the maximum + 1 MHz. - Jukka. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
