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Date:      Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:13:04 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        jt@xoasis.de
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: est CPU support
Message-ID:  <4CCEBCE0.2040308@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <201011011341.46906.jt@xoasis.de>
References:  <201011011052.11084.jt@xoasis.de> <201011011325.36879.jt@xoasis.de> <4CCEB229.9030907@icyb.net.ua> <201011011341.46906.jt@xoasis.de>

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on 01/11/2010 14:41 Joerg Traeger said the following:
> On Monday 01 November 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 01/11/2010 14:25 Joerg Traeger said the following:
>>> On Monday 01 November 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>> on 01/11/2010 11:52 Joerg Traeger said the following:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have got several mainboards with CPUs which appear not to be
>>>>> supportet by est. An error exists:
>>>>>
>>>>> (examle of somewhat older Intel DG45FC with DualCore E5200 and latest
>>>>> BIOS)
>>>>>
>>>>> est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
>>>>> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
>>>>> est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 61a4c1f06004c1f
>>>>> device_attach: est0 attach returned 6      <----------
>>>>
>>>> Do you have ACPI enabled?
>>>
>>> Yes, sure it is enabled.
>>
>> Can you upload your acpidump -dt output somewhere and provide a link?
> 
> You can read the output here:  http://xoasis.de/DG45FC_E5200_acpidump.txt

Your BIOS doesn't provide _PSS method for processor objects, so est won't work in
general ACPI mode.
You can try putting the following into your loader.conf to try using MSRs
directly, but I don't know if it would help you (or make things worse):
hw.est.msr_info="1"

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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