Re: powernow(4) not configured

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 01:10:48PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> dmesg with acpi tables attached.

The ACPI tables are missing? But even without those, a strong hypothesis is
that the motherboard and/or BIOS vendor simply forgot to supply the CPU
frequency tables within the firmware image. All CPU PM drivers (est(4),
powernow(4), acpicpu(4), odcm(4)) now "race" for the best match.

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 01:10:48PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> machdep.dmi.system-vendor = System manufacturer
> machdep.dmi.system-product = System Product Name
> machdep.dmi.system-version = System Version
> machdep.dmi.system-serial = System Serial Number
> machdep.dmi.system-uuid = 759d4440-fe8d-11d5-9cc0-00235435b1ed
> machdep.dmi.bios-vendor = American Megatrends Inc.
> machdep.dmi.bios-version = 0802   
> machdep.dmi.bios-date = 20080807
> machdep.dmi.board-vendor = ASUSTeK Computer INC.
> machdep.dmi.board-product = M2A-MX
> machdep.dmi.board-version = Rev 1.xx
> machdep.dmi.board-serial = MS1C89BX0L01044
> machdep.dmi.board-asset-tag = To Be Filled By O.E.M.

If you have time, you could add some of this information to the quirk table
in acpi_cpu.c (should be clear enough; but see pmf_get_platform(9)). Funnily
enough, the vendor(s) also put some copy-paste information to the "system"
fields in the DMI/SMBIOS, so you'd probably use the board or bios -fields.

- Jukka.