Bruno Damour <> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your answer
>
> Please find attached the result of acpidump. iasl doesn't seem to be included 
> in snv_129 by default.
> I cannot 100% confirm that speedstep DID work on snv_127, because I never 
> investigated it, but I certainly never noticed any message like these 
> reported in the /var/log/messages during boot up of snv_129.
>
> Bruno
>

This is caused by the buggy BIOS.
The CPU objects in DSDT acpi table are implemented as CPU1~CPU4, they
should be CPU0~CPU3 instead.
So _PSS for CPU0 is invalid.
You can either give up speedstep or upgrade your system BIOS on your own risk.

Thanks,
-Aubrey

> ----- Mail Original -----
> De: "Aubrey Li" <[email protected]>
> À: "Bruno Damour" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Envoyé: Mercredi 16 Décembre 2009 09h45:42 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / 
> Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
> Objet: Re: [osol-discuss] snv_129 problems with hotplug and speedstep
>
> Bruno Damour <> wrote:
>> Bruno Damour wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I upgraded my box yesterday from sxce b127 to sxce b129.
>>> Everything went smoothly but I get two worrying error messages :
>>>
>>> - hotplug failure :
>>> Dec 12 10:12:30 unknown pcie: [ID 441510 kern.warning] WARNING:
>>> pcie_hp_init: initialize hotplug controller failed with -1
>>>                  Dec 12 10:12:30 unknown pcie: [ID 552151 kern.warning]
>>> WARNING: pcieb2: Failed setting hotplug framework
>>> - speedstep failure :
>>> Dec 12 10:12:29 unknown unix: [ID 378719 kern.info] NOTICE: cpu_acpi: _PSS
>>> package evaluation failed for with status 5 for CPU 0.
>>>       Dec 12 10:12:29 unknown unix: [ID 388705 kern.info] NOTICE: cpu_acpi:
>>> error parsing _PSS for CPU 0
>>>            Dec 12 10:12:29 unknown unix: [ID 928200 kern.info] NOTICE:
>>> SpeedStep support is being disabled due to errors parsing ACPI P-state
>>> objects exported by BIOS.
>>> The last one seems however to have gone when I rebooted into xvm
>>>
>>> Bruno
>>>
>> Speedstep is disabled allright anyhow (see cpu_info) :
>
> If I understood correctly, P-state works properly on snv127 on your box
> and broken on snv129, right? If so, please send me your acpi table by
> acpidump/iasl.
>
>> BTW what means : socket unknown ?
>
> socket_type is not implemented on Intel platform.
>
> Thanks,
> -Aubrey
>
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