From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 21:53:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C280416A41C for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:53:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C58243D1D for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:53:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5TLrUNh020952; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:53:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j5TLrTes020951; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:53:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:53:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm Message-ID: <20050629215329.GA20836@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20050520033116.62902.qmail@web30704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20050524155924.GE31564@dragon.NUXI.org> <200506291159.20846.peter@wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200506291159.20846.peter@wemm.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device cpufreq X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:53:30 -0000 On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:59:20AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:59 am, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:31:16PM -0700, Neil Short wrote: > > > I updated to 6.0-CURRENT to test out the powernow > > > drivers on my machine. It's a laptop and the processor > > > is AMD Athlon-xpm. > > > carmen# dmesg > > > ... > > > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor 3000+ (1595.89-MHz > > > 686-class CPU) > > > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0xf48 Stepping = 8 > > > > I'm surprised by this output - you have a K8 core CPU (754-pin rev. > > C0). Your BIOS should say something other than "Athlon(tm) XP". What > > laptop do you have? > > > > > Features=0x78bfbff > >,PGE,MCA,CM OV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> > > > AMD Features=0xc0500000 > > > ... > > > cpu0 on motherboard > > > powernow0: on cpu0 > > > > This is correct. > > If you'll notice, he's got a '686-class' cpu and there is no LM (long > mode) in the AMD Features flag. He's running FreeBSD/i386, not /amd64, > on an Athlon-XP mobile, not an Athlon64. It might be a cut-down K8 > core, but its not got 64 bit on it. It most likely is a K8-based Sempron laptop, but AFAIK it should identify the CPU as such. That's why I wan't to know the model of laptop to check into this. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)