Slowing down an XO-1.5

Mitch Bradley wmb at laptop.org
Tue Mar 30 03:17:13 EDT 2010


The "4" is 406 is for 400 Mhz.  The normal value is "a06", where "a" is 
decimal 10 for 1000 Mhz.

The "6" is the voltage selection code; this processor only supports the 
value "6".

Mitch Bradley wrote:
> ok 406. 199 msr!
>
> The period after 406 is mandatory - it forces the number to be 
> 64-bits, suitable as the data operand to msr!.
>
>
> John Watlington wrote:
>> Mitch,
>>    Is there a simple way from OFW (or ACPI) to restrict
>> the operating frequency of the processor in the XO-1.5
>> to be the lowest possible ?
>>
>> The relevant comment from a deployment was that they
>> can't use full speed XO-1.5 motherboards as replacements
>> for XO-1 motherboards.  They think kids would break their
>> laptop to get it upgraded...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> wad
>>   
>



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