On 15.01.2026 00:42, Milky wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 at 11:12 AM, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On 14.01.2026 11:58, Milky wrote:
>>
>>> Just wanted to update this thread to say that now another T480 user (the 
>>> T480 is a very similar model to my T480S) using the release builds of 
>>> libreboot (as of 26.01 RC1) also has the entries missing from the ACPI 
>>> tables. That discussion was here 
>>> https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/394. So this confirms that I'm 
>>> running a standard libreboot, rather than a bad build.
>>>
>>> Do you think there is any way to avoid the underclocking issue with Xen on 
>>> such devices/firmware?
>>
>>
>> In principle there is, but in the absence of ACPI data that means holding 
>> model-
>> specific data in Xen. Which iirc is what the intel-pstate driver in Linux 
>> does
>> (using ACPI info nowadays only as "auxiliary" data). But I may be wrong 
>> there,
>> as it has been a long time since I last looked at that driver.
> 
> In that case, would you say this is settled now? Would it make sense to 
> report back to the QubesOS community that librebooted T480/S will run 
> underclocked, due to the missing data in ACPI tables and lack of native 
> support in Xen? This information is important, as the device is only barely 
> usable.

What to suggest to the Qubes community needs to be discussed there, I think.

Jan

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