From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 18:35:37 2005 Return-Path: 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 8AD7216A4CE; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:35:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B3D43D2D; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:35:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j11IZZhN064867; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:35:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <41FFCBF3.7070505@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:35:31 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041110 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Lawson References: <41FFB53B.3020907@root.org> <41FFB77B.10305@root.org> In-Reply-To: <41FFB77B.10305@root.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/585/Thu Nov 11 06:22:42 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:23:09 +0000 cc: acpi@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New cpufreq framework and drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:35:37 -0000 Nate Lawson wrote: > Nate Lawson wrote: > >> Below is the first patch of cpufreq for wider testing. It has the >> framework, cpu pseudodriver updates, and two hardware drivers -- ACPI >> performance states and SpeedStep-ICH. It has had a lot of testing on >> supported hardware but needs wider testing before importing. Other >> hardware drivers can be quickly ported to this interface, and I'm >> happy to assist their maintainers. >> >> http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/cpufreq.diff > > > Sorry, I'm so familiar with the interface that I forgot to mention how > to use it. To test, build a new kernel and modules. Load one or both > of acpi_perf.ko and cpufreq.ko at boot time. Type "sysctl dev.cpu" to > see the new freq and freq_levels output. If you're a driver maintainer, > see sys/cpu.h and speedstep_ich.c or acpi_perf.c for an example how to > provide the driver interface. > Will this only work on -current, or also 5.3-stable? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------