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Date:      Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:41:10 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c 
Message-ID:  <20060226014110.A936F4504C@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:42:06 PST." <4400EB4E.10208@freebsd.org> 

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> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:42:06 -0800
> From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
> 
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >> cperciva    2006-02-25 04:55:39 UTC
> >>   Log:
> >>   Add frequency-voltage tables for Intel 778, 758, 773, 753, and 733J
> >>   processors.
> >>   
> >>   Obtained from:  Intel Datasheet 302189-008
> > 
> > Is this a new datasheet or did someone find it in some odd corner of
> > Intel land? I'll admit that I'm baffled as to why Intel seemed to keep
> > this information under wraps for so long.
> 
> Intel updates their datasheets from time to time -- the information for
> these processors was added in a new version of an old datasheet.  Intel
> still hasn't released the frequency/voltage tables for their 7x0 series
> processors or the formula used to compute them.

Ack! I was not paying nearly enough attention! Still no joy for my 760
CPU, then.

Thanks anyway. Hopefully some day it will be available. I still don't
understand why Intel would withhold this sort of information on an
out-of-date series of chips from those who would buy the chips! (Or, at
least system containing them.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634



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