Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:37:13 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: CPU throttling Message-ID: <20060408183713.GA36318@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4437FD31.2040604@shaw.ca> References: <4437FD31.2040604@shaw.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:13:05AM -0700, Graham North wrote: > ACPI Advice CPU freq management are kind of new to me and I will be > setting up a brand new motherboard with a sempron 3100+ which has power > throttling capabilities. I want to capture this if possible - CPU > throttling was a key factor in its choice. > > I intend to install as i386 initially. Do I need to load any specific > drivers in order to enable AMD's on-chip power management? Can someone > tell me what is built into the kernel and/or what needs to be added? I > believe that ACPI is part of the kernel? Does it just auto-detect and > provide a "ready to run - right out of the box"? Is it worth waiting a > couple of weeks for 6.1 to be released or are these features solid > already in an updated 6.0? "device cpufreq" in kernel and powerd_enable="YES" in rc.conf It's worth using 6.1 on general grounds, but this support has been in 6.x for some time. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEOALZWry0BWjoQKURAqneAJ9HcfqLNAXwBEaK32vc7TM6hIgqsgCfViul sqZ1+ViJ7yb+RZfurYiXdPs= =zt17 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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