Bug 77332 - RFE: Enable speedstep for PIII (Coppermine) mobile CPUs
Summary: RFE: Enable speedstep for PIII (Coppermine) mobile CPUs
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 81910
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-05 06:46 UTC by shmuelp
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2003-06-08 15:39:30 UTC
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Description shmuelp 2002-11-05 06:46:50 UTC
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Description of problem:
The ability to throttle the CPU of a notebook based on battery/AC power is very
important for extending battery life.  For intel chips, this is based on the
kernel file arch/i386/kernel/speedstep.c.  This is is already in the RH kernel.
 However, the file as written will not work by default with PIII (Coppermine)
CPUs, requiring the user to remove a line and recompile.  This is meant as a
check that the user really has a speedstep-capable processor, since the module
does not check for that.  Perhaps that line could be removed already, on the
presumption that someone without a speedstep-capable processor won't try to
insert the module?

ALternatively, the cpufreq patches to the 2.5 kernel seem to detect the CPU just
fine...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot kernel on speedstep-capable PIII (Coppermine) CPU
2. Run 'modprobe speedstep'


Actual Results:  [root@magrathea root]# modprobe speedstep
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/speedstep.o: init_module: No such
device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/speedstep.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/speedstep.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/speedstep.o: insmod speedstep failed
[root@magrathea root]# tail -5 /var/log/messages
Nov  5 01:39:38 magrathea kernel: cpufreq: Intel(R) SpeedStep(TM) support
$Revision: 1.34 $
Nov  5 01:39:38 magrathea kernel: cpufreq: Intel PIII (Coppermine) detected. If
you are sure this is a
Nov  5 01:39:38 magrathea kernel: cpufreq: SpeedStep capable processor, please
remove line 483 in
Nov  5 01:39:38 magrathea kernel: cpufreq:
linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpufreq/speedstep.c.
Nov  5 01:39:38 magrathea kernel: cpufreq: Intel(R) SpeedStep(TM) for this
processor not (yet) available.


Expected Results:  Speedstep module should insert cleanly into kernel

Additional info:

[root@magrathea root]# uname -a
Linux magrathea 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@magrathea root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 701.598
cache size      : 256 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 pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1393.96

Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2003-02-14 07:53:24 UTC
Have you tried passing the speedstep_coppermine=1 parameter to the module? Have
you tried the most recent kernels from Rawhide?

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2003-06-08 15:39:30 UTC
No reply, current speed step code updates in current errata
Closing



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