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From: App Deb <appdebgr@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Varying clocks freqs of CPU ?
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:25:16
Message-Id: AANLkTimC23m=cYRf8gaZoG3RNLU_AH_+3eTYuf=y2TM=@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Varying clocks freqs of CPU ? by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:00 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 >  new features, new problems...
6 >  Recent multi-core CPUs modify the clock freqs of their core
7 >  if only a subset of all cores are used.
8 >
9 >  Are their any CONFIGs need to be set in the linux kernel to
10 >  guarantee a stable system running those kind of CPUs ?
11 >
12 >  Thank you very much in advance for any help!
13
14 Most Intel CPUs need: CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ
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16 All AMD CPUs need: CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8
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18 enabled in the kernel.
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20 And after that you need to install and enable/run the cpufrequtils daemon.

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