[dropped arch-general, added kernel folks] On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:10:19 +0100 > Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I just installed linux 3.7.2 from [testing] on an AMD system and >> > noticed that powernow-k8 is not loaded. >> >> Probably due to this: >> <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e1f0b8e9b04a262834ed1>. [...] >> Hm, I thought acpi_cpufreq should have been loaded instead, no idea >> why that does not happen for you. Could you try loading it manually? > > Neither acpi_cpufreq nor powernow_k8 is loaded automatically which of course > leads to failure of all custom units configuring ondemand governor via > sysfs. Manually modprob'ing acpi_cpufreq does work and indeed properly scales > down the frequancy, but is accompanied by an info-level kernel message > "acpi-cpufreq: overriding BIOS provided _PSD data". > > So, if the cpufreq driver works OK for other AMD users, I'll happily blame > asus... Matthew, Andre, Rafael, Is what Leonid experinces above expected behavior or is this a bug? He is using stock Arch kernel, which is almost vanilla 3.7.3 (see [0] for the applied patches, nothing looks relevant). Cheers, Tom [0]: <https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/linux> -- 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
