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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: ACPI errors
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:20:57PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > I'm getting this with the recent ACPI code, should I worry about it?
> > 
> > acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
> > acpi_cpu: CLK_VAL field overflows P_CNT register
> > acpi_cpu: CLK_VAL field overlaps THT_EN bit
> 
> You shouldn't worry about it, no.  I need to get my hands on some more
> details so that I can understand what's going on here though.  The problem
> is that the bits specified to control the CPU clock run/pause ratio overlap
> other bits in the register that are already defined (and spill outside the
> register itself).  Either I have an arithmetic error, or your BIOS is 
> "broken" and we need to deal with it.
> 
> Until we're fixed, this just means that you can't throttle your CPU; it 
> shouldn't have any effect on system behaviour.
> 
Whenever you are ready to deal with this let me know and I'll give 
you whatever info on my setup you need.

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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