Hi,

Just posting this during a break before I go catchup on sleep, quite tired, so I will be quite brief..

When I downloaded and ran PHCTool-0.5.2-2, I realized it was missing important features, especially support for AMD64/Opteron/Turion64 in terms of Vcc calculation (Voltages tab), MSR Polling (Analysis tab). Even more unfortunate, if I use phc-k8 with direct_transitions=1 (enabled), and add intermediate fids/vids in command line, then try to open PHCTool, it would crash because it doesn't know about these intermediate fids/vids (since it doesn't find default vids for them in phc_default_fids)

So I went ahead and made a patch to address all these issues

Changes made by the attached patch:
- Added VID->Voltage calculation formula(s) for Athlon64, Opteron, Turion64 Mobile Technology CPUs (including X2)
- Added autodetection of Turion64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50, TL-52, TL-56, Tl-58, TL-60, TL-62, etc.. to use said formula(s)
- Added checking for direct_transitions if phc-k8 module is being used (for AMD CPUs), and display if its enabled in "Infos" page
- Added detection of intermediate frequencies being used if phc-k8 is detected and direct_transitions is enabled, and auto-calculation of "default VIDs" for the intermediate FIDs (Quick and dirty imitation of RMClock, but done in a haste, so need to revise for accuracy) so that PHCTool recognizes them and allows for adjustment of their VIDs and displays the difference between the "defaults" and the values you set, and more importantly, NOT CRASH!
- Added support for AMD K8 MSR Polling, so you can now use the "Analysis" tab of PHCTool to check if the VIDs (and optionally intermediate FIDs) are actually being used by your CPU

Screenshots? Everyone loves screenshots

Infos


Voltages


Analysis


Infos - Direct Transitions enabled and used


Voltages - Direct Transitions enabled and used (also shows difference from the calculated "defaults")


Sources used for reference/ideas in the process of creating the patch:
- Chapter 9 (Power and Thermal Management) of the "BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide for the AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron Processors" available for download from AMD
- AMD AthlonTM 64 Processor Power and Thermal Data Sheet available for download from AMD (also applies to Sempron & Turion64 Mobile Technology CPUs)
- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c from kernel 2.6.30 sources
- cpupowerd (just for ideas and to confirm the correctness of the formula used - src/msr_amd.c)
- RMClock manual/Readme

Glad to have you on board!

Me, too!

Welcome on board!

Hi,

thanks for this patch and the time you spent writing it, but... it seems to have no effect on my machine (Acer travelmate with tl-58). When I run the patch in a terminal the following appears:
XXXXX@XXXXX:~/Dokumente/energieverwaltung/0.5.2-2/phctool/inc/libs$ sudo patch < phctool-0.5.2-2_amd64.patch
patching file cpuinfo.py
patching file msr.py
patching file voltages.py
patching file phctool.py
Hunk #1 FAILED at 97.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 216.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 225.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 307.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 339.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 355.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 363.
7 out of 7 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file phctool.py.rej
XXXX@XXXX:~/Dokumente/energieverwaltung/0.5.2-2/phctool/inc/libs$

when I run phctool afterwards my cpu keeps non recognized. Shut I apply the patch before or after running the install.sh of phctool? I am a linux-newbie and every help is much appreciated, because the fan of my laptop is the only thing that keeps me away from nonstop working in linux instead of windows.

Thanks in advance.

Please note that PHCTool is currently not maintained.

I apologize that I still can not provide a new alternative.

I hope someone with some time to spend will take care of a GUI.

Until then you need to use the console tools. They give you all you need (but not a GUI at all )

@the-fallen,@jasmine: Thank you so much ! You saved me from WinXP + RM Clock. Now XP is virtual.
I`ve applied your patch, but since my CPU wasn`t in, i`ve added a line in voltages.py for it (though I don`t understand python).
(Turion64 MLxx is old single core which benefits from undervolting hugely, mine is ML34 at 1.45v@1.8Ghz underpowered to 1.15V@1.8G thus 35W->25W like MT34 model (same Si) ).
@Nic: For those (like me ) who can`t even use patch tool, i put here the whole (AMD) patched version. Ripped the doc folder to meet the 256k limit. One can D/L the original source to get it.
run phctool by typing: path_to/phctool.sh
I`ve did a nasty fix for error i got trying to run phctray.sh It was problem regarding egg.trayicon (no such object or so). Now using gtk.StatusIcon.
@Nic: Do you have phc kernel and phc_k8 kernel module loaded ?
For unknown reason I`ve lost /dev/cpu node, so I couldn`t check if the settings applied from GUI/Analysis tab. To resolve i `ve loaded the msr driver by hand: sudo modprobe msr
hope it helps someone.
@the-fallen: registration here was very challenging due to captcha module. I recognized 1 from 8 tries.