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Date:      Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:40:57 +0200
From:      Stefan 'Steve' Tell <steve.tell@crashmail.de>
To:        Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: powernow0: no match for extended cpuid 780
Message-ID:  <87vesuc152.fsf@zeus.crashmail.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060426180613.GC4766@poupinou.org> (Bruno Ducrot's message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:06:13 %2B0200")
References:  <9sGmNqTehEB@zeus.crashmail.de> <20060426180613.GC4766@poupinou.org>

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Hi,

first of all a big thanks for your reply.

* Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:11:00PM +0000, Stefan 'Steve' Tell wrote:

>>     powernow0: <PowerNow! K7> on cpu0
>>     powernow0: ACPI MAX frequency not found
>>     powernow0: no match for extended cpuid 780

> Maybe by chance a BIOS upgrade will be ok.

Sorry, no chance here. This is always the newest bios version available.

> If that's not the case, or BIOS is alredy the newest, we could resolve
> that issue by hardcoding sane values under the powernow driver,
> or by rewritting the DSDT of this laptop.
> The second solution will give you the oportunity to not have to
> patch powernow for each upgrades.

This would be great. Do you need more information? What can I do?

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