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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:12 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cpufreq not working as module on i386/amd64
Message-ID:  <4D5AA12C.1070300@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110129084125.GA54969@freebsd.org>
References:  <AANLkTi=Ln7f9tWt=OqZa9eZ-ZAVBfQSC-y_=8c-6zwAd@mail.gmail.com> <20110129084125.GA54969@freebsd.org>

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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



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