Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:14:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Frerich Raabe <frerich.raabe@gmx.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/43732: New port: FVCool - cooling software for AMD Athlon/Duron CPUs Message-ID: <200210060214.g962E14Y060815@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 43732 >Category: ports >Synopsis: New port: FVCool - cooling software for AMD Athlon/Duron CPUs >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 05 19:20:02 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Frerich Raabe >Release: FreeBSD 4.7-RC i386 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD daedalus.lan 4.7-RC FreeBSD 4.7-RC #4: Sat Oct 5 23:03:31 CEST 2002 root@daedalus.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINOTAUR i386 >Description: FVCool is the FreeBSD version of the famous VCool software (http://vcool.occludo.net) which changes the PCI configuration data of some chipsets and thus allows AMD Athlon/Duron CPUs to go into power-save mode. This makes the CPU consume a lot less electric energy, and it produces a lot less heat as well. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: # This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before # this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". Note, it may # create directories; files and directories will be owned by you and # have default permissions. # # This archive contains: # # fvcool # fvcool/pkg-plist # fvcool/pkg-descr # fvcool/pkg-comment # fvcool/distinfo # fvcool/Makefile # fvcool/pkg-message # echo c - fvcool mkdir -p fvcool > /dev/null 2>&1 echo x - fvcool/pkg-plist sed 's/^X//' >fvcool/pkg-plist << 'END-of-fvcool/pkg-plist' Xsbin/fvcool X%%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/00README.txt X%%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/00READMEj.txt X%%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/00READMEkt133.txt X%%PORTDOCS%%@dirrm %%DOCSDIR%% END-of-fvcool/pkg-plist echo x - fvcool/pkg-descr sed 's/^X//' >fvcool/pkg-descr << 'END-of-fvcool/pkg-descr' XFVCool is the FreeBSD version of the famous VCool software X(http://vcool.occludo.net) which changes the PCI configuration data of Xsome chipsets and thus allows AMD Athlon/Duron CPUs to go into power-save Xmode. This makes the CPU consume a lot less electric energy, and it Xproduces a lot less heat as well. This trick is not a secret - on XFreeBSD, you can actually achieve the same effect which this software Xhas using the "pciconf" command. X XPlease note that this software may have a negative impact on the Xsystem's stability and thus should not be employed in production Xor mission-critical environments. X XWWW: http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu X X- Frerich Raabe Xfrerich.raabe@gmx.de END-of-fvcool/pkg-descr echo x - fvcool/pkg-comment sed 's/^X//' >fvcool/pkg-comment << 'END-of-fvcool/pkg-comment' XVCool for FreeBSD - Cooling software for AMD Athlon/Durin CPUs END-of-fvcool/pkg-comment echo x - fvcool/distinfo sed 's/^X//' >fvcool/distinfo << 'END-of-fvcool/distinfo' XMD5 (FVCool100.tar.gz) = a2d40b47af3b223c66c25e0f6946510b END-of-fvcool/distinfo echo x - fvcool/Makefile sed 's/^X//' >fvcool/Makefile << 'END-of-fvcool/Makefile' X# New ports collection makefile for: fvcool X# Date created: 5 October 2002 X# Whom: Frerich Raabe <frerich.raabe@gmx.de> X# X# $FreeBSD: Id$ X# X XPORTNAME= fvcool XPORTVERSION= 1.0 XCATEGORIES= sysutils XMASTER_SITES= http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/ XDISTNAME= FVCool100 X XMAINTAINER= frerich.raabe@gmx.de X XPLIST_SUB+= DOCSDIR=${DOCSDIR:S,${PREFIX}/,,} X XDOC_FILES= 00README.txt 00READMEj.txt 00READMEkt133.txt X XALL_TARGET= fvcool X Xdo-install: install-doc X ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/fvcool ${PREFIX}/sbin/fvcool X Xinstall-doc: X.if !defined(NOPORTDOCS) X @${MKDIR} ${DOCSDIR} X.for file in ${DOC_FILES} X @${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/${file} ${DOCSDIR} X.endfor X.endif X Xpost-install: X ${CAT} ${PKGMESSAGE} X X.include <bsd.port.mk> END-of-fvcool/Makefile echo x - fvcool/pkg-message sed 's/^X//' >fvcool/pkg-message << 'END-of-fvcool/pkg-message' XWARNING: This software can have a negative impact on the system's Xstability, in particular while doing heavy duty work such as Xencoding music the system can freeze under certain conditions! X XDon't use this software in production or mission-critical Xenvironments! END-of-fvcool/pkg-message exit >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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