powernow regression in 8-STABLE

[Callum Gibson]

On 20Jul11 19:28, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
}From your dmesg output, I see that the processor speed was not 
}calibrated properly.  ML-40's max. core freq. is 2,200 MHz according 
}to its specification but it was probed at 2,282 MHz, which is too 
}high.  I think that's the problem.  Can you please try the attached 
}patch?

Yes, I have seen core freq wobble around for most of the time I've owned it,
but usually close to 2200. This morning (with my reverted powernow.c) I had:
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 3080/35000 2800/29000 2520/24000 2240/20000 1120/9000
which I don't believe I've seen before. Anyway...

With your new patch applied (and powernow.c changed back to r222148) 
I get exact freq levels:

dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2200/35000 2000/29000 1800/24000 1600/20000 800/9000

However, dev.cpu.0.freq OID is still missing from sysctl output.

As another data point, with your new patch applied, but the old powernow.c,
(which I booted into mistakenly first time), I did have dev.cpu.0.freq,
but the freq levels weren't exact.

Here is a new verbose boot output with a cleaned and built kernel, 8-STABLE
as at time=1311028656 and your patch applied:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/callumgibson/verboseboot2.out

regards,
    Callum

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