I encountered the same issue on MNT Reform with Banana Pi CM4 module (Amlogic A311D / meson g12b). The processor operates at lowest speed and toolig can't display CPU freqs, until the cpufreq-dt-platdev module is loaded manually.
- Bug#1050587: linux: cpufreq-dt requires manuall... Aurelien Jarno
- Bug#1050587: linux: cpufreq-dt requires ma... Lukas F. Hartmann
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