From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 16:06:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F2C1065674; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:06:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410FE8FC2F; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id RAA21458; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4D5AA12C.1070300@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:12 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101213 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Best References: <20110129084125.GA54969@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110129084125.GA54969@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpufreq not working as module on i386/amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:06:30 -0000 on 29/01/2011 10:41 Alexander Best said the following: > that's rather odd. for me neither the module nor the kernel code works, since > my cpu isn't supported by sys/x86/cpufreq/est.c. actually only pentium mobile > cpus seem to be supported. That's a little bit of misinformation. Primarily est uses ACPI interface to do its work. Hardcoded MSR tables are only the last resort mechanism, and indeed those support only a handful of models. -- Andriy Gapon