Subject: Re: Question about speedstep and the est.frequency.target sysctl
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/27/2007 17:21:29
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:17:08 -0700
buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org (Brian Buhrow) wrote:
> Hello. No, I don't have estd installed. Are there any other
> programs in the standard distribution which would set this value, perhaps
> without my knowledge? Right now, I'm running NetBSD-3 because the
> NetBSD-4 kernels can't drive the pcmcia slots for some reason.
Is it a dual core system? if it's true, the est driver in netbsd-3
won't work correctly, because it doesn't know what cpu it's setting
the frequency.
Starting from netbsd-4, there's a workaround for this and the same
frequency is set in all CPUs with an IPI handler.
--
Juan Romero Pardines - The NetBSD Project
http://plog.xtrarom.org - NetBSD/pkgsrc news in Spanish