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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:29:31 +0400
From:      Toxa <postfix@senmail.ru>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Enhanced SpeedStep driver available
Message-ID:  <20040818182931.GA1926@laptoxa.toxa.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20040818082141.5d2fcee7@duality.bytephobia.de>
References:  <6.1.0.6.1.20040816074348.03f99338@popserver.sfu.ca> <20040817234314.GA31323@laptoxa.toxa.lan> <4122A34F.2020607@nikiforov.ru> <20040818082141.5d2fcee7@duality.bytephobia.de>

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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:21:41AM +0200, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:

> Pentium 4 M is the mobile version of a Pentium 4 and capable of speed step.
> Pentium M is a complete new processor and not a mobile version of any other. Indeed it is based on the Pentium 3 layout (but only based ;) ).

> Centrino is no processor at all. Centrino is the name for a hardware bundle:
>  - Intel Pentium M (no Pentium 4!)
>  - Intel Chipset (with or without onboard graphic)
>  - Intel Wireless-LAN adapter

> If one of this partsis missing on a system it must not be called Centrino (that's Intel politics).

Thanks for clearing it out for us all, but the fact is that Pentium
4 M (not Pentium M from Centrino "toolkit") is capable of SpeedStep
(Not Enhanced SpeedStep, right?). But freebsd lacks of speedstep support 
(AFAIK, hw.acpi.cpu_throttle_state plays only with processor C-states,
which are not SpeedStep),  so I'm womdering if est.ko would do
something with Pentium 4 M processors.

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