From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mon Feb 29 01:36:16 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D153AAD3CB for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:36:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@potato.growveg.org) Received: from potato.growveg.org (potato.growveg.org [62.49.247.163]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8BCC1E4A for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:36:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@potato.growveg.org) Received: from john by potato.growveg.org with local (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1aaCkv-0000g6-0K for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:36:13 +0000 Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:36:12 +0000 From: John To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with powerd and cpufreq on AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M Message-ID: <20160229013612.GA2085@potato.growveg.org> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20160228151843.GA69185@potato.growveg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: john X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:36:16 -0000 On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 08:29:14AM +1100, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: >Thanks John, I have cpufreq added via the boot/loader.conf which always >works. However, over the weekend, I was testing some boot changes and tried >to add cpufreq AFTER the kernel - unsuccessfully. This was amd64 10.3Beta1 >and 10.3Beta3. > >A workaround (for you) might be to remove it from the kernel and load >cpufreq via loader.conf? > >I have some other problems (with usb nic's axge,axe) but I'll pursue if I >get time for enough info for a PR Hi Dewayne, Thanks for looking at this. I modified loader.conf: $ cat /boot/loader.conf cpufreq_load="YES" then recompiled the kernel and rebooted: 10.3-BETA3 #1 r296151 root@onion:~ # kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 13 0xffffffff80200000 d45380 kernel 2 1 0xffffffff80f46000 f0c8 cpufreq.ko 3 1 0xffffffff8113d000 1604 fdescfs.ko 4 1 0xffffffff8113f000 946 pflog.ko 5 1 0xffffffff81140000 2d0ef pf.ko ...but still no-go: root@onion:~ # powerd -v powerd: no cpufreq(4) support -- aborting: No such file or directory Also commented out the powerd entries from /etc/rc.conf, rebooted again, no difference. many thanks, -- John