From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 29 13:38:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68CA737B401 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074E243E5E for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0033.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.33] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17ZHHl-0001Ck-00; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:38:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3D45A79A.CFC0083D@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:37:46 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Nottebrock Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD low power hacks References: <3D459194.70206@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Nottebrock wrote: > I've been wondering lately why my AthlonTB runs at a quite high > idle-temperature and I came across this page: > > http://vcool.occludo.net/VC_Theory.html > > Does someone feel like getting something similar into our kernel? Note that this can not be made to be reliable without the confidential errata for A4, A5, A6, A7, and A9. Otherwise, you can/will get spurious system hangs. I rather expect that this is the reason it's "off by default", on most systems, and why there is a "BIOS override" that disables it, on others. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message