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Date:      Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:50:48 -0500
From:      "Yousif Hassan" <yousif@alumni.jmu.edu>
To:        "Anish Mistry" <mistry.7@osu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fujitsu P8010: est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized
Message-ID:  <863014ECF11048B78C23D1D31DCAFF40@alderaan>
In-Reply-To: <200802291045.39977.mistry.7@osu.edu>
References:  <200802281645.00286.mistry.7@osu.edu> <47C73E8E.40706@gmail.com> <A48BAC083342485094C683FBE08908AE@alderaan> <200802291045.39977.mistry.7@osu.edu>

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On Friday 29 February 2008, Anish Mistry wrote:
> On Friday 29 February 2008, Yousif Hassan wrote:
> > Anish Mistry wrote:
> >> I got a new Fujitsu P8010 and est doesn't seem to attach to my
> >> dual core processor since it doesn't recognize the CPU.  My
> >> dmesg is linked at the end of the email.  Is there anything I
> >> can do to add it?

<snip>

>>Anish, are you running amd64?  This seems to be a recurring theme
>>with amd64, based on some research I did and based on my anecdotal
>> evidence.
>Yes, I'm running amd64.

If you're willing, try an i386 kernel and see if the est driver attaches. 
If using i386 isn't a non-starter for you, that's a workaround.

That said, I still hope someone who knows this stuff can comment on this 
definitively.  It seems odd that i386 attaches est fine, but amd64 doesn't.

--Yousif 




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