From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 23:33:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2A116A4D7; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:33:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4472843D1F; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:33:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.250] (adsl-64-171-186-189.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.171.186.189]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j1DNXSZj000976 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:33:29 -0800 Message-ID: <420FE3C7.6020003@root.org> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:33:27 -0800 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20050213231306.376E05D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20050213231306.376E05D07@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: acpi@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: cpufreq import complete, acpi_throttling changed X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:33:39 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: >>Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:21:32 -0800 >>From: Nate Lawson >>Sender: owner-freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org >> >> >>If you have throttling, please test the new configuration to be sure it >>still works as before. Final upcoming work will be manpage support and >>bugfixing as necessary. > > > On my T30, throttling has simply vanished. Kernel sources as of this > afternoon at about 11:00 PST. > > sysctl hw.acpi does not list any throttling entries at all. It shouldn't, they were merged into the sysctl dev.cpu output as you mention below. > It does list an amazing number of frequency settings, but only 1800 and > 1200 seem to actually work. Perhaps the others are derived by mixing the > two capabilities? On the earlier versions of cpufreq I was getting only > the two frequencies listed along with the 8 throttling states. > > Did I miss a message on this? Try cvsupping to now. I did some commits about an hour or two ago that should address throttling not attaching. > I am especially concerned because my CPU is now running VERY hot when > busy. It never used to exceed about 180F and now it quickly jumps to > 190+ when the system is working (such as a buildkernel). Since it was > previously running without throttling, I don't understand why things are > suddenly worse. > > Any idea on what is happening? I don't want to fry my T30. One person reported Cx states being broken by the cpufreq import. (Well, actually he got a C3 state that he didn't have before but it didn't work.) Try setting hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest to C1 or something you're sure works. Send me the output of sysctl dev.cpu, dmesg, and devinfo -rv. -- Nate