[fedora-arm] Possible kernel config issue with Pandaboard ES (Phoronix)?

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Phoronix is of course not always on the mark, but their results seem to
>> suggest there's a config issue in the Fedora kernel regarding the
>> OMAP4460 core used in the Pandaboard ES - apparently cpufreq support is
>> lacking, and consequently the CPU doesn't run at full speed. The
>> benchmarks seem to confirm this.
>
> I knew waiting a few weeks before installing F17 ARM on my PandaBoard
> ES was a wise idea... ;)
> GA code nowadays means "beta". Beta means "Alpha" and "Alpha" means
> "broken". ;-P

I don't see how Fedora 17 ARM on the pandaboard ES is broken what so
ever, not as fast as it could be is not the same as broken. The
article doesn't mention anywhere stability issues and we've already
enabled the kernel option and are reviewing the other bits available.

Peter