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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:22:22 +0100
From:      Simon Barner <barner@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Matus Harvan <mharvan@inf.ethz.ch>
Subject:   Re: powerd adaptive mode latching
Message-ID:  <20071108132222.GC1674@dose.local.invalid>
In-Reply-To: <472FD321.3010509@nortel.com>
References:  <472E9D0B.5080409@csub.edu> <20071106002940.GB1817@styx.ethz.ch> <472FD321.3010509@nortel.com>

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Andrew Atrens wrote:
> 
> I see the same thing with my T7500 -
> 
> dev.cpu.0.freq: 300
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2201/32000 2200/31000 1925/27125 1650/23250 1600/20000 1400/17500 1200/13000
> 1050/11375 900/9750 800/10000 700/8750 600/7500 500/6250 400/5000 300/3750
> 
> This patch to powerd works around the problem -
> 
> 
> --- powerd.c    2007-11-05 21:33:40.000000000 -0500
> +++ /usr/src/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.c   2007-11-05 16:48:49.000000000 -0500
> @@ -182,6 +182,11 @@
>                         free(*power);
>                         return (-1);
>                 }
> +               /* kludge to w/around too-close cpu freqs */
> +               if ((i > 0 && ((*freqs)[i-1]-(*freqs)[i]) < 2)) {
> +                       (*numfreqs)--;
> +                       i--;
> +               }
>                 p = q + 1;
>         }
> 
Please see kern/114722. The patch from the PR works fine with my
T61 (T7300).

Funny enough, I contacted re@ to get this into 7.0 only two minutes ago.

For the archives, the similar bug described in bin/117375 already seems
to be adressed in RELENG_7.

-- 
Best regards / Viele Grüße,                             barner@FreeBSD.org
 Simon Barner                                                barner@gmx.de

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