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Date:      Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:11:15 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20050408041115.GA65552@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <200504032145.j33LjKcD077325@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200504032145.j33LjKcD077325@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:45:20PM +0000, Nate Lawson wrote:
> njl         2005-04-03 21:45:20 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc/defaults         rc.conf 
>   Log:
>   Instead of leaving the current frequency setting at whatever the BIOS set
>   on boot, force it to HIGH.  This is needed for some systems which appear
>   to boot with a low acpi_throttle setting by default.  Thanks to Christian
>   Brueffer for tracking this down on his system.
>   
>   MFC after:      1 day

That is an awful fast MFC for something like this...
I am worried about this for Athlon64 laptops, which per AMD specification
defaults the CPU to the lowest Pstate.  We may fry some Athlon64 laptops
unless we are *sure* our power daemon is working correctly.
   
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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