On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 05:12:07AM +0000, Ramon Fischer wrote
> You can disable the intel p state driver by adding an additional
> kernel parameter through your bootloader.
>
> For GRUB2 you can do the following:
>
> /etc/default/grub:
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="intel_pstate=disable"
>
> terminal:
> sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> sudo reboot
>
> After that, the other governors should be available, too.
Thank you very much, that was it. I actually use lilo, so stuff like
this goes into an "append" entry. Currently I have
append = "noexec=on net.ifnames=0 intel_pstate=disable"
I now get available frequencies (in khz) for the Silvermont of...
[7] 1601000
[8] 1600000
[9] 1520000
[10] 1440000
[11] 1360000
[12] 1280000
[13] 1200000
[14] 1120000
[15] 1040000
[16] 960000
[17] 880000
[18] 800000
[19] 720000
[20] 640000
[21] 560000
[22] 480000
I do not remember seeing 1601000 (1.601 ghz) before.
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