Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:58:21 -0700 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enhanced SpeedStep driver available Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.1.20040816235520.03faa468@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <4120F823.2040802@portaone.com> References: <6.1.0.6.1.20040816074348.03f99338@popserver.sfu.ca> <4120F823.2040802@portaone.com>
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At 11:08 16/08/2004, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >Colin Percival wrote: >> Thanks to everyone who has been sending me data about their >>processors (and in particular, the 90nm versions), I now have >>a first draft of a Enhanced SpeedStep driver available. [...] > >It would be nice if you can extend it to use whatever speed control method is available (e.g. ACPI, TCC, ESS etc), so that it can be used on older machines as well. njl is working on a general cpufreq framework, and I'm sure he'll commit it as soon as it's ready; given that my knowledge of ACPI is absolutely nil, I think it's best if I leave that to him. :-) My Enhanced SpeedStep code is simply a temporary solution for a relatively simple case until cpufreq is ready. Colin Percival
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