Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:57:36 +0200 From: "Philip S. Schulz" <ph.schulz@gmx.de> To: Ulrich Spoerlein <q@galgenberg.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Disabling device probing (was: Re: long flight; need battery power!) Message-ID: <4315EF90.2080709@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20050831145150.GA1050@galgenberg.net> References: <430E4967.20355.1BF72257@localhost> <e367ea1005082604092c3fe807@mail.gmail.com> <20050826162107.GB659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <430F536A.5060008@gmx.de> <20050831145150.GA1050@galgenberg.net>
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on 31.08.2005 16:51 Uhr Ulrich Spoerlein said the following: > On Fri, 26.08.2005 at 19:37:46 +0200, Philip S. Schulz wrote: > >>[relative cpufreq drivers suck] >> >> Personally, I find this very annoying b/c 750 MHz makes the fan spin up more often than >>800 MHz where I don't feel any difference in performance. >> >> In order to work only with absulute drivers, i.e. emulate the est(4) behaviour, use >>/boot/device.hints to disable all relative drivers your system detects. > > > I have the same problem and am still running est/estctrl on my 6.0 > Banias-Laptop. I read cpufreq(4) and didn't find any documented loader > tunables. Would you care to share the magic incantation, that disables > relative drivers? > most (all?) drivers don't probe for the hardware if you set the variable hint.[device].[instance].disabled="1". For example, to disable probing for p4tcc0, I have hint.p4tcc.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hints Regards, Phil. -- Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
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