The following reply was made to PR kern/36995; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/36995: ENHANCED_SPEEDSTEP dangerous on newer Core 2 Duo  CPUs
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:48:46 +0200

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 On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:46:27PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
 > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, jmcneill@invisible.ca wrote:
 > > Proper fix: Unknown; is there a feature flag we can check when we
 > > calculate est frequencies to ignore the highest value?
 >=20
 > Even without a feature flag, it seems that we have enough information to
 > detect this situation.  I'll highlight two items from your dmesg output:
 
 Not that easily.
 
 > > cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7100  @ 1.80GHz, 1795.65 MHz
 >                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 E.g., my laptop's BIOS can be configured to operate at minimum speed
 when powered on on battery.
 
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