From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 27 22:44:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DFE106566B; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:44:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander.bakst@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570BA8FC13; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws14 with SMTP id 14so575620vws.13 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:44:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SjHaEsJlOt7derFtpRPRggjuOe3BzeuTUtqCCUgfWBU=; b=K433SbzWuawz/zwbL03vzIHt7PWdGBn2r7dICYlPMr1OrR6Anzm6uAOlHSz46OjivB urMHR8T2GVQo9mMcw4hCNKOspBhzBway3WJwGgYNKK7fV/Yj6HpEBYfcSBcCwdEjm/le 1ATjSox49+xYKZB8/559Nx0t6nbvAy+j8L7OU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=oiGG4GLX3FuI5NJDqe1T45wZQcfNfT+ODHHssDuWtu12sjuD19SfICP9N8hH4oqWJc PyT7ZSIgLWoVLAnhYOjWsh4JxZs5mqbPG3udSQJMKxKeoBhS+Bh/mnLDxpc4k/DXfC1z 5Aqklz5jrHVY+PsQdquxSCGmRhMI31PaMMi/M= Received: by 10.220.48.22 with SMTP id p22mr1709742vcf.93.1267310682283; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:44:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from Faptop.local (c-66-31-201-186.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [66.31.201.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 40sm14546328vws.2.2010.02.27.14.44.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:44:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B89A057.3090309@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:44:39 -0500 From: Alexander Bakst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Whitehorn References: <4B8984BF.5080607@oracle.com> <4B898D00.9030706@fgznet.ch> <4B898E84.1040200@gmail.com> <4B89930D.3060800@fgznet.ch> <4B8997BD.5080601@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4B8997BD.5080601@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fan/Power controls X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:44:55 -0000 Sure - Andreas, I'd be willing to help in some capacity - though I'm more or unless unfamiliar with the power970...and the freebsd kernel, for that matter. --Alexander On 2/27/10 5:07 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Andreas Tobler wrote: >> On 27.02.10 22:28, Alexander Bakst wrote: >>> (Switched my non-work e-mail) >>> >>> Well, I actually am using a fancy apple G5 - I belive it is a power >>> 970fx, not sure though. I'm not even sure how to check the current >>> clock >>> frequency of my cpu. To be honest, it would be fantastic if it weren't >>> running at the highest speed, since I would like to save power. I don't >>> know if the kernel will tell the cpu to snooze/nap. >> >> Hm, it is a 970FX @ 2000.36 MHz. >> I'm confused that there is no smu? >> Maybe this one lacks the smu. According to the docs I have, the 7,3 >> behaves similar to the 7,2. And the 7,2/3 do not have an smu. The cpu >> speed is controlled via freq and volt. And some nasty gpio interrupts >> @ Nathan :) This bites me currently! >> >> Can you boot this machine into OS-X and see what it tells you about >> the CPU speed? >> >> Hopefully I'm wrong :) > The CPU speed is only low if you break into OF at boot. If you just > let it autoboot on PowerMac 7,2 and 7,3 (and RackMac 3,1), it has the > correct value. Unfortunately, Andreas is right that your machine is > SMU-free, and so there is no fan control at the moment. I believe he > is working on fixing that, and, if you are feeling ambitious, you > could try working together. It should be fairly straightforward, and > your other options, unfortunately, are waiting or falling back to Debian. > -Nathan