From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 04:27:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2577D106564A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:27:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andreast-list@fgznet.ch) Received: from smtp.fgznet.ch (mail.fgznet.ch [81.92.96.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E468FC0C for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:27:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from deuterium.andreas.nets (dhclient-91-190-14-19.flashcable.ch [91.190.14.19]) by smtp.fgznet.ch (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit_SMTPAUTH) with ESMTP id q934Qrxf050842; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:26:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreast-list@fgznet.ch) Message-ID: <506BBE8C.5090404@fgznet.ch> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:26:52 +0200 From: Andreas Tobler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Hibbits , Matthew Rezny References: <823A5C42-D1B8-49BF-BDB8-F551167AC6C0@hexaneinc.com> <20121002224117.339ac8b1@narn.knownspace> In-Reply-To: <20121002224117.339ac8b1@narn.knownspace> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 81.92.96.47 Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 running CPUs slow on PowerMac7,2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:27:02 -0000 On 03.10.12 04:41, Justin Hibbits wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 01:17:08 +0200 > Matthew Rezny wrote: > >> Tue Oct 2 22:49:53 UTC 2012 Jason bacon wrote: >>> Did you try enabling powerd? ( powerd_enable="YES" in rc.conf, >>> "man powerd" ) >>> >>> I had this issue with an iBook some time ago, and Nathan W. pointed >>> out that Macs boot at the lower CPU freq, so you have to change it >>> manually with sysctl or run powerd to control it automatically. >> >> I do have that in rc.conf, but powerd has no way to control the >> clockrate without cpufreq available. >> >> # powerd >> powerd: lookup freq: No such file or directory >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Andreas Tobler posted something related to this a while back on the > list. His suggestion at the time was to autoboot to FreeBSD, and not > boot via the Open Firmware prompt. If you're already doing that, I'm > clueless. > > The relevant link I found is > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Fan-Power-controls-td4170991.html Justin is right here. The only option you have is autoboot to get the full CPU frequency. These machines have a complicated way to setup the full CPU frequency and I do not know if it is worth hacking here when one can get the value with autobooting. Here in the last section 'Booting into FreeBSD' you find how to do this. http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ppcinstall.txt Hope this helps. Andreas