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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:10:41 +0200
From:      Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
To:        Emmanuel Berre <eberre@ouvaton.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Powernow daemon
Message-ID:  <20040602161041.GE13782@poupinou.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040602155628.GA1018@fbone.net>
References:  <20040602142209.GJ591@fbone.net> <20040602154730.GD13782@poupinou.org> <20040602155628.GA1018@fbone.net>

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Hi,

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 05:56:29PM +0200, Emmanuel Berre wrote:
> Le Wednesday 02 June 2004 à 17:47, Bruno Ducrot a écrit :
> | On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:22:10PM +0200, Emmanuel Berre wrote:
> | > Hello,
> | > 
> | > I looked for a little daemon to control AMD Athlon Mobile Frequency
> | > for weeks in vain. So I decide to create my own daemon. My daemon is
> | > based on the powernow-k7 module ported by Bruno Ducrot from Linux.
> | > 
> | 
> | If you want to do so, please be sure to not hardcode the path to the
> | sysctl stuff so that user of other kind of processors may benefit
> | from it..  I believe that at least 'state' will be more or less
> | ok hopefully, but there is good luck that the frequency table will be
> | made in a more generic way somehow.
> 
> For the moment I use "hw.powernow.state" et "hw.powernow.max_states" to
> know the frequency scaling limits.
> 

That should be more or less ok, I think.  Though I don't like 'max_states'.
I have to contact the developper to change that name for 'num_states'
or something like that ;)

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.



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