Subject: Re: AMD PowerNow! not working
To: Nino Dehne <ndehne@gmail.com>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/24/2006 11:24:19
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:20:52 +0200
Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:45:43 +0200
> Nino Dehne <ndehne@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running a recent -current on a Laptop with a:
> > 
> > cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
> > cpu0: AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ (686-class), 1857.62 MHz, id 0x6a0
> > cpu0: features c3cbf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR>
> > cpu0: features c3cbf9ff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MPC,MMXX,MMX>
> > cpu0: features c3cbf9ff<FXSR,SSE,3DNOW2,3DNOW>
> > cpu0: "mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 2500+"
> > cpu0: I-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way, D-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way
> > cpu0: L2 cache 512 KB 64B/line 16-way
> > cpu0: ITLB 16 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully
> > associative cpu0: DTLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB
> > entries 4-way cpu0: AMD Power Management features: TS FID VID
> > cpu0: 8 page colors
> > 
> > In Windows XP, this thing has PowerNow! support as confirmed by an
> > AMD- supplied tool which shows the current frequency and CPU load.
> > 
> > Now, as I understand it, GENERIC should already support PowerNow!:
> > 
> > # AMD PowerNow! K7
> > options     POWERNOW_K7
> > 
> > The commit message of revision 1.18 of
> > src/sys/arch/i386/i386/powernow_k7.c contains a hint that this
> > particular CPU ID should be supported now. Do I have yet another
> > different CPU model or how can I get it working? The constantly
> > running CPU fan and short runtime make using NetBSD on this thing
> > rather unpleasant.
> 
> Oh, I just found the problem... I'll send you a new kernel for
> testing.

Please try: http://www.xtrarom.org/~juan/netbsd.gz

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