On Jul 1, 2007, at 10:28 AM, doomwarrior wrote:

>> update my box to current. So I could do a diff against current and  
>> wrote a man page for the driver. Which doen't exists atm.
>> It would be nice to get any response either on the man page, on  
>> the patch or on both ;-)
>
>> The man page is attached to this mail.
>
> I forwarded this email to tech-kern, because I don't get any  
> response until know
> and want to see somthing happening before the patch starting to rot.
>
> Best Regads
> Stephan
>
> PS. please put me on CC on response, because I'm not subscriped at  
> this list.
>
>
>
> Index: piixpcib.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /pub/NetBSD-CVS/src/sys/arch/i386/pci/piixpcib.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.10
> diff -r1.10 piixpcib.c
> 228a229,230
> >       aprint_debug("piixpcib: GSIC call EAX: 0x%x EBX: 0x%x ECX:  
> 0x%x EDX: 0x%x\n", regs.EAX, regs.EBX, regs.ECX, regs.EDX);
> >
> 372,376c374,394
> <               /* setup some defaults */
> <               sc->sc_smi_cmd = 0xb2;
> <               sc->sc_smi_data = 0xb3;
> <               sc->sc_command = 0x47534982;
> <               sc->sc_flags = 0;
> ---
> >               struct cpu_info *ci = &cpu_info_primary;
> >
> >                /* setup default values for supported processor  
> types or bail out */
> >                switch(ci->ci_signature) {
> >                        case 0x680:
> >                        case 0x681:
> >                        case 0x683:
> >                        case 0x686:
> >                        case 0x6B0:
> >                        case 0x6B1:
> >                        case 0x6B4:
> >                                /* setup some defaults */
> >                                sc->sc_smi_cmd = 0xb2;
> >                                sc->sc_smi_data = 0xb3;
> >                                sc->sc_command = 0x47534982;
> >                                sc->sc_flags = 0;
> >                                break;
> >                        default:
> >                                aprint_verbose("%s: SpeedStep SMI  
> not supported by processor\n", sc->sc_dev.dv_xname);
> >                                return;
> >               }
>
>
>
> .\" Copyright (c) 2007 Stephan Meisinger
> .\"
> .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software  
> for any
> .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that  
> the above
> .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
> .\"
> .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL  
> WARRANTIES
> .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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> LIABLE FOR
> .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY  
> DAMAGES
> .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER  
> IN AN
> .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,  
> ARISING OUT OF
> .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
> .\"
> .Dd Jun 10, 2007
> .Dt PIIXPCIB 4
> .Os
> .Sh NAME
> .Nm piixpcib
> .Nd Intel PIIX4 PCI-ISA bridge with SpeedStep
> .Sh SYNOPSIS
> .Cd "piixpcib* at pci? dev ? function ?"
> .Cd "isa* at piipcib?"
> .Sh DESCRIPTION
> The
> .Nm
> driver provides support for the Intel PIIX and compatible PCI-ISA  
> Bridge
> with Intel's first generation SpeedStep.
> .Pp
> Frequncy scaling is supported on Pentium III with two voltage modes,
> ^^^^
Frequency
> used by SpeedStep as power state low and high.
> The driver will switch into low power state by reduceing voltage
						^^^^^^^	
						reducing
>
> and frequency of the CPU. The factor depends on the processor  
> itself, but
> will always reduce power consumtion about 1/2.
> .Pp
> The user can manually control CPU frequncy with the
				   ^^^^			
				   frequency
> .Xr sysctl 8
> program accessible through:
> .Bl -tag -width usscanner -offset indent
> .It machdep.speedstep = [0/1]
> .El
> .Sh SEE ALSO
> .Xr cpu 4 ,
> .Xr isa 4 ,
> .Xr pci 4 ,
> .Xr apmd 8 ,
> .Xr sysctl 8
.Xr powerd 8 ??
.Xr envstat/envsys ??
> .Sh HISTORY
> The
> .Nm
> driver first appeared in
> .Fx 5.5 and then in
> .Nx 4.0 .
> .Sh AUTHORS
> .An -nosplit
> The current
> .Nm
> driver was written by
> .An Bruno Ducrot.
> It was ported to
> .Nx
> by
> .An Jared D. McNeill Aq jmcneill@netbsd.org .
>

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