welp, my final x86 laptop died, RIP
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i think it's the battery, maybe i will take the backplate off and disconnect it
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oh, coreboot wants to take away turbo boost because there's no battery. well, guess i will just patch that out.
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oh what the fuck, its the damn CPU itself locking my cores at 600mhz, god i hate fucking x86
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Years ago I ran into an annoying issue with Intel CPU configuration:
bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?i
The way Linux loads microcode clears a bunch of the CPU state and would wipe out nearly all the configuration I'd set up in the motherboard for it. Have to only use motherboard updates.
There's a really complex MSR-based configuration and monitoring system for setting the turbo ratio limits, per-core multipliers and a bunch of other things. A locked CPU just makes a bunch of that stuff read-only. You could technically overclock a CPU writing to that in the OS.
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