I can confirm that the AMD Turion X2 2.2Ghz HP Compaq 6715b "business" x86_64 k8 dual-core laptops circa 2007 DO get stuck in 800Khz mode and cannot switch out of it after booting the "stable" "v3.4.4" tagged kernel.
I followed the containing post and reverted commit ff74ae50f01ee67764564815c023c362c87ce18b : Commit d51cdad33bb5bb370c05129f7c7f3a16a55eff40 Author: root <root@jvdspc.localdomain> Date: Fri Jul 6 18:57:03 2012 +0000 Revert "ACPI: Evaluate thermal trip points before reading temperature" This reverts commit 9bcb8118965ab4631a65ee0726e6518f75cda6c5. commit ff74ae50f01ee67764564815c023c362c87ce18b Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Fri Jun 22 11:37:50 2012 -0700 And wow ! what a difference - back to a circa 2007 machine versus a circa 1987 machine. Not too many of us left around trying to run the latest version of linux on nearly 5-year-old hardware I guess, but still - please can you restore correct Linux cpufreq & thermal operation on old-style AMD k8 CPUs ? They do seem to depend on the temperature being set BEFORE 1st entry . Thanks & Regards, Jason Vas Dias (a Software Engineer) <jason.vas.d...@gmail.com> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.u...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 03:20:27AM +0700, Comrade DOS wrote: >> > Unfortunately you have used acpi=debug instead of apic=debug. So I >> > can't compare I/O APIC configurations between the different test >> > scenarios. >> >> Sorry me for this mistake. > > No problem. > > The logs show no difference in IO-APIC pin usage. > So it's not the old problem ... > > Comparing both logs I found following differences: > > (Most other stuff seems just to be changed formatting.) > > -ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ1] (67 C) > +ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ1] (62 C) > > I think what's shown is the temperature value which just differed > between the boots. But that made me look at acpi/thermal.c where the > messages came from. The only change between 3.3 and 3.4 is this > commit: > > commit 9bcb8118965ab4631a65ee0726e6518f75cda6c5 > Author: Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> > Date: Wed Feb 1 10:26:54 2012 -0500 > > ACPI: Evaluate thermal trip points before reading temperature > > I'd suggest to do a test with this patch reverted. Maybe this change > to fix issues with one HP Laptop (re-)intruduced the trouble with your > system. > > If reverting the patch helps we have to take a closer look at your > ACPI tables. So can you please do a > > # git revert 9bcb8118965ab4631a65ee0726e6518f75cda6c5 > > on top of v3.4 and rebuid your kernel and rerun your test (with > apic=debug. This allows easier diff to dmesg output of your previous > test runs). > > In any case it also would be good to have the acpi tables from your > system. So please also use > # acpidump >acpidump.3.3 (using the 3.3.x kernel) > # acpidump >acpidump.3.4 (using the unmodified 3.4 version) > > and send all files as attachments to your mail. > > This will allow me to look at your thermal zone definitions in the > working and non-working case. > > > Thanks, > > Andreas > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/