Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:02:21 -0600 From: "Ross Penner" <ross.penner@gmail.com> To: "Ross Penner" <ross.penner@gmail.com>, "Erik Cederstrand" <erik@cederstrand.dk>, "User questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support Message-ID: <f80199c40710241402p2337ce89j57117e23a0165bc8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071024203843.GA69008@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <op.t0orhzxkq910fd@localhost> <471EF23F.7040506@cederstrand.dk> <f80199c40710240929n4508c153k8c5afa8da4a7332b@mail.gmail.com> <f80199c40710241225r7fac535ana6686545d5f1c9b0@mail.gmail.com> <20071024195646.GA67817@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <f80199c40710241325k7711ca79if3c9967fa02aa261@mail.gmail.com> <20071024203843.GA69008@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On 10/24/07, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > > > What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the > > > available CPU frequencies. > > > > > I get: > > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 397/-1 198/-1 > > > > Is this something I should be reporting to stable? It's not explicitly > > mentioned in the hardware notes so I'm not sure if my processor is > > actually supported in 6.2. Is it possible that I've been shipped the > > wrong processor? If so, how would I be able to tell short of ripping > > off the giant heatsink and looking? > > Have a look at the dmesg output with 'dmesg |head -n 24'. There should > be some info about the CPU in there. Post those lines here. Lines from dmesg: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: VIA C7 Esther+RNG+AES+AES-CTR+SHA1+SHA256+RSA (399.40-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x6a9 Stepping = 9 Features=0xa7c9bbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE> Features2=0x181<SSE3,EST,TM2> It clearly indicates that it's a 400MHz processor, but the timecounter makes me think it' the 1.2 GHz it's supposed to be. > And have a look at the bios. It could have some settings to regulate the > CPU speed. The BIOS didn't seem to have anything to adjust the CPU speed, but while booting I did notice that it declared itself as a via C7 400MHz processor.
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