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Date:      Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:36:40 +0200
From:      Joerg Traeger <jt@xoasis.de>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: est CPU support
Message-ID:  <201011011436.41296.jt@xoasis.de>
In-Reply-To: <4CCEBCE0.2040308@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <201011011052.11084.jt@xoasis.de> <201011011341.46906.jt@xoasis.de> <4CCEBCE0.2040308@icyb.net.ua>

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On Monday 01 November 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 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"

Est still cannot attach.

Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on 
cpu0
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est0: Guessed bus clock (high) of 32 MHz
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est0: Guessed bus clock (low) of 416 MHz
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not 
recognized.
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 
61a4c1f06004c1f
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: device_attach: est0 attach returned 6
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on 
cpu1
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est1: Guessed bus clock (high) of 32 MHz
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est1: Guessed bus clock (low) of 416 MHz
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not 
recognized.
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 
61a4c1f06004c1f
Nov  1 14:28:10 kiste kernel: device_attach: est1 attach returned 6

Is there anything else to try or is Intel (the board vendor) just to blame to 
omit something important?
Windows is able to bypass this problem so Intel will never fix this?


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