From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 17:33:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5657016A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:33:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E57643D48 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:33:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4OHXKib034744; Tue, 24 May 2005 10:33:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j4OHXJZW034743; Tue, 24 May 2005 10:33:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:33:19 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bruno Ducrot Message-ID: <20050524173319.GA34689@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20050520033116.62902.qmail@web30704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20050524155924.GE31564@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050524163229.GE21800@poupinou.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050524163229.GE21800@poupinou.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device cpufreq X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:33:22 -0000 On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Bruno Ducrot wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:59:24AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:31:16PM -0700, Neil Short wrote: > > > I updated to 6.0-CURRENT to test out the powernow > > > drivers on my machine. It's a laptop and the processor > > > is AMD Athlon-xpm. > > .. > > > carmen# dmesg > > > ... > > > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor 3000+ (1595.89-MHz > > > 686-class CPU) > > > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0xf48 Stepping = 8 > > > > I'm surprised by this output - you have a K8 core CPU (754-pin rev. C0). > > Your BIOS should say something other than "Athlon(tm) XP". What laptop > > do you have? > > Some amd64 with long mode disabled are called 'sempron' due to some QA > failing tests. Uh, no. AMD wishes to sell a 32-bit "value" CPU. They are called the Sempron brand. It makes most sense from a manufacturing POV to make these from a K8 derived core than to continue to produce K7 derivatives. A Sempron is not an Athlon64 that failed QA tests. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)