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Date:      Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:39:17 +1100 (EST)
From:      Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To:        Joerg Traeger <jt@xoasis.de>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Subject:   Re: est CPU support
Message-ID:  <20101102123207.L33417@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
In-Reply-To: <201011011822.54279.jt@xoasis.de>
References:  <201011011052.11084.jt@xoasis.de> <4CCEBCE0.2040308@icyb.net.ua> <4CCEED91.6030205@icyb.net.ua> <201011011822.54279.jt@xoasis.de>

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On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Joerg Traeger wrote:
 > On Monday 01 November 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:
 > > on 01/11/2010 15:13 Andriy Gapon said the following:
 > > > 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.
 > >
 > > Hmm, it seems that I missed code in your DSDT for dynamically loading SSDT.
 > > Could you please provide a link to your boot dmesg?
 > 
 > Sure. You find dmesg here: http://xoasis.de/DG45FC_dmesg.txt

Don't know whether it's relevant, but I noticed:

ACPI: Overriding _OS definition with "Windows 2001.1"

but your acpidump shows FreeBSD as a supported OS in method OSFL:

If (_OSI ("FreeBSD"))
    {
        Store (0x06, OSVR)
    }

cheers, Ian



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