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Date:      Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:27:47 -0400
From:      Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
To:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, John <freebsd-lists@potato.growveg.org>
Subject:   Re: some general questions regarding freebsd on rasp pi
Message-ID:  <5C8F46FD-ED2A-4B30-A10F-6A666A3E0816@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20150903141622.GA42047@potato.growveg.org>
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On Sep 3, 2015, at 10:16 AM, John <freebsd-lists@potato.growveg.org> =
wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:49:31PM +0100, John wrote:
>=20
>> Just need to update ports and start building what I need. One answer =
i've not been able
>> to find - is it easy to clock the pi under freebsd? Looking for 1GHz=20=

>> (think the ram is half this)
>=20
> in the grand tradition of answering myself, the way to do this with =
the rasp 2
>=20
> hw.cpufreq.turbo=3D1
> dev.cpu.0.freq=3D900
>=20
> in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot, or modify them directly. Now i have:
>=20
> # sysctl hw.cpufreq
> hw.cpufreq.temperature: 43312
> hw.cpufreq.voltage_sdram_p: 1200000
> hw.cpufreq.voltage_sdram_i: 1200000
> hw.cpufreq.voltage_sdram_c: 1200000
> hw.cpufreq.voltage_core: 1312500
> hw.cpufreq.turbo: 1
> hw.cpufreq.sdram_freq: 450000000
> hw.cpufreq.core_freq: 250000000
> hw.cpufreq.arm_freq: 900000000
>=20
> and
>=20
> # sysctl dev.cpu
> dev.cpu.3.%parent: cpulist0
> dev.cpu.3.%pnpinfo: name=3Dcpu@3 compat=3Darm,cortex-a7
> dev.cpu.3.%location:=20
> dev.cpu.3.%driver: cpu
> dev.cpu.3.%desc: Open Firmware CPU
> dev.cpu.2.%parent: cpulist0
> dev.cpu.2.%pnpinfo: name=3Dcpu@2 compat=3Darm,cortex-a7
> dev.cpu.2.%location:=20
> dev.cpu.2.%driver: cpu
> dev.cpu.2.%desc: Open Firmware CPU
> dev.cpu.1.%parent: cpulist0
> dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: name=3Dcpu@1 compat=3Darm,cortex-a7
> dev.cpu.1.%location:=20
> dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu
> dev.cpu.1.%desc: Open Firmware CPU
> dev.cpu.0.temperature: 42.2C
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 900/-1 600/-1
> dev.cpu.0.freq: 900
> dev.cpu.0.%parent: cpulist0
> dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: name=3Dcpu@0 compat=3Darm,cortex-a7
> dev.cpu.0.%location:=20
> dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
> dev.cpu.0.%desc: Open Firmware CPU
> dev.cpu.%parent:


FWIW, I believe that powerd is supported on the Raspberry Pi 2, so if =
you add powerd_enable=3D"YES" to your /etc/rc.conf it will switch =
between the two CPU frequencies depending upon CPU load.

Cheers,

Paul.




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