[ltp] speedstep-centrino on Dothan

Osho GG linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:16:21 -0700


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:22:38 +0200, Nick Bower <nick@nickbower.com> wrote:
> Hi - has anyone here with the T42's 1.6MHz Dothan got speedstep-centrino
> or something similar working yet?  The fix mentioned about adjusting the
> processor mask in this module and recompiling simply doesn't work for me
> (perhaps because my cpu is different to those mentioned) and I'm still
> searching for options.  It really surprised me that 2.6.8.1 didn't work
> at all, failing to recognise the CPU.
> 
> $ more /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 13
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
> stepping        : 6
> cpu MHz         : 1595.177
> cache size      : 64 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 2
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
> pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe tm2 est
> bogomips        : 3162.11
> 

I have T42p with 1.8GHZ Dothan. 2.6.8.1 is working for me - I did have
to apply the 04-cpufreq-speedstep-dothan-3.patch - I found all the
patches that I used on

http://www.stanford.edu/~sanjiv/thinkpad/thinkpad.html

See under 2.6.8.1 patches near the end.

Osho