Subject: Re: AMD cool'n'quiet
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Robert Cates <robert@kormar.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/04/2006 21:23:19
Martijn van Buul wrote:

>It occurred to me that Tim Jakobsen wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386:
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>>On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:38:29PM +0100, Juan RP wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:34:19 +0100
>>>Isn't AMD's cool'n'quiet a feature for the AMD64 processors? please
>>>correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't read the datasheet yet.
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>>Oops you are right. The processor is 64bit but since it can run i386 I
>>thought it was supported there too ? 
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>Cool'n'quiet is certainly not a 64bits-only feature; AMD ships drivers for
>Windows 2000 :)
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Drivers for AMD's Cool 'n' quiet?  I thought that would be something 
controlled by the CPU/BIOS, and not software.(?)