From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 16:29:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55FFF16A481 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:29:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF9B13C4A3 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:29:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so211658pyb for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:29:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=hFrQ6IUHJbC8hi0L84X+kY360Pd4Ic9O73ZhLAATjhc=; b=fVQmYe80rj+IGfoLr5lcNBCsItgo2WRd1MDa2CMU2N52UAqA7vlFtuds//4eoAekAxvPmJZ5uY6/TQHGUwYEjRzL4na3er2roOPCvoiMWeQ2k3uJicjJvnGQ96an/0tsA3ZdWwpQ7QN0+iph73CzyziUSL+9DUcZAyHRvezkuwI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=OXa7n8TgIZ4+A0NKXjrYgvmNz2IH2O0Ej4O/dxXXrTL+hXRlLyeOug8yFP1OvzDiou3xvZ2qCJFGiRAsPE8rzadap+g8fTX+aIQmSr9iztTQ13sFie6GwZ7G/4qYfU4X/zGjU1Z9SJLbE09eqBd7D5X6dFZhEmh8oZQ5dWFi9ro= Received: by 10.35.92.18 with SMTP id u18mr894817pyl.1193243344610; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.64.14 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:29:04 -0600 From: "Ross Penner" To: "Erik Cederstrand" In-Reply-To: <471EF23F.7040506@cederstrand.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <471EF23F.7040506@cederstrand.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: User questions Subject: Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:29:15 -0000 On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > > Ross Penner wrote: > > Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In > > examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates > > that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip > > have support that I don't know of? If not, will it? Otherwise, will > > specifying the chipset as C3 help or hinder my environment? > > I know this is not an answer, but why not just upgrade to 7.0 if you > need the C7 support? I probably will. I just thought I'd try and see if I could stay on stable first. > My second question is in regards to the CPU frequency control. I've > > seen that the C7 gets support for cpufreq in 7 current, but I'm > > running 6. Without support in cpufreq, what speed would my processor > > be running at? I've always thought my performance has been lackluster > > so I suspect it's running at the lower clock speed. > > If cpufreq/powerd is not active, your processor is running full-speed. > You can check this with "sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq" if it's available on > your system. sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 Erik > >