Intel Core Duo stuck at low speed without battery

Bug #75462 reported by Guilherme Salgado
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Linux
Fix Released
Medium
linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Using ondemand governor, frequency scaling works as expected when the battery is
in the system, both with A/C plugged in or unplugged. When the bettery is
removed, if the CPU is busy, it keeps running at 1.66GHz,
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[01]/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq shows 1667000. When
the busy job quits, the CPU drops back to 1GHz and
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[01]/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq also changes to 1000000
and can no longer be increased. After reinserting the battery,
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[01]/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq accepts larger
frequencies again.

description: updated
Changed in linux:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Guilherme Salgado (salgado) wrote :

it's looking like this is a bug on some thinkpad's BIOSes

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
Changed in linux:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
Changed in linux:
status: Invalid → Fix Released
Changed in linux:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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