From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 7 02:43:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78EB216A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 02:43:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B1A43D5F for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 02:43:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sepotvin@videotron.ca) Received: from [192.168.0.245] ([70.80.136.44]) by VL-MO-MR010.ip.videotron.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IBI00GLISW6ZN@VL-MO-MR010.ip.videotron.ca> for acpi@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 21:43:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 21:43:18 -0500 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" In-reply-to: <42068A5C.1030300@root.org> To: Nate Lawson , acpi@freebsd.org Message-id: <4206D5C6.1060109@videotron.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050202) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <42068A5C.1030300@root.org> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: cpufreq import complete, acpi_throttling changed X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 02:43:44 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nate Lawson wrote: | I've finished the major work of importing cpufreq. As part of this, the | sysctls for acpi throttling have been removed. The power_profile script | has been updated, so you can use performance/economy_cpu_freq= in | rc.conf to set AC on/offline cpu frequencies. The acpi throttling | support has been compiled into acpi_perf.ko so load that to get | throttling. Do a sysctl dev.cpu to get an understanding of the cpufreq | sysctls. | | If you have throttling, please test the new configuration to be sure it | still works as before. Final upcoming work will be manpage support and | bugfixing as necessary. | | I'd also like to issue a call for developers to help by porting older | drivers (like longrun) and out-of-tree new drivers (like powernow-k7/k8 | and speedstep-m) to the cpufreq interface. It's very simple and you | just have to figure out if your driver is absolute or relative, and | convert values to the proper units (percent in hundredths, power in mW, | etc.) Once that is done, please send me the diff for review before | commit so I can make sure it works properly. | I've lost cpu throttling with this commit on my Dell Inspiron XPS. The acpi_throttle driver doesn't probe correctly on the HT cpu which seems to cause some problems. ... acpi0: on motherboard cpu0: on acpi0 acpi_throttle0: on cpu0 cpu1: on acpi0 cpu1: acpi_throttle: add child failed ... If you need anything (acpi ASL dump, ...) I'll send them offline as they are quite large. Steph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCBtXGmdOXtTCX/nsRAiJ/AKDQ5gVq+cyGxyZItZ/3grthjVWyTwCg+qi5 LsKBtAOEtbJak4qltk6X5PY= =7orK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----