Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:07:49 +0200 From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> To: Eduardo =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=EDnguez_P=E9rez?= <e-minguez@seznam.cz>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & SpeedStep Message-ID: <20040611090749.GJ13782@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <20040611090131.GA88138@murphy.planlos.de> References: <1086904021.1915.9.camel@localhost> <20040611012507.GI13782@poupinou.org> <20040611090131.GA88138@murphy.planlos.de>
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:01:31AM +0200, Frank Altpeter wrote: > > Hello! > > Bruno Ducrot wrote on 2004-06-11 03:25:07 +0200: > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:47:01PM +0200, Eduardo Mínguez Pérez wrote: > > > Hi! > > > This is my first mail to the list and I want to sorry for my english > > > (I'm spanish ;D) > > > My question is... Is speedstep supported by FreeBSD? My notebook is a p4 > > > mobile (1,7 Ghz) > > > > Not yet. > This answer only applies AFAIK to 4.x FreeBSD versions. 5.2-CURRENT > does indeed support speedstep technology. No. > > # dmesg | grep step > acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0% The processor will be throttled, so frequency will change somehow. But the voltage (which is the key to speedstep technology) will be the same. Cheers, -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.
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