Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 9400 Centrino Duo and Pro/Wireless 3945 support?
To: Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/31/2006 09:09:10
"Jonathan A. Kollasch" writes:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:41:55PM +0930, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> > G'day,
> >=20
> > Is there support for Centrino Duo and for the Pro/Wireless 3945 chipset?
> 
> The Core Duo is a mysterious beast, many (all?) the BIOSes they are
> paired with don't claim SMP support like they should.  

I'm happy to report that while 'many' might be correct, 'all' 
isn't true :)

E.g. on my spiffy new Toshiba Satellite A100-0FH the Centrino Duo 
shows up as 2 CPUs:

cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel Pentium Pro, II or III (686-class), 1596.15 MHz, id 0x6e8
cpu0: features bfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features bfe9fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
cpu0: features bfe9fbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
cpu0: features2 c189<SSE3,MONITOR,EST,TM2,xTPR>
cpu0: "Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2050  @ 1.60GHz"
cpu0: I-cache 32 KB 64B/line 8-way, D-cache 32 KB 64B/line 8-way
cpu0: L2 cache 2 MB 64B/line 8-way
cpu0: using thermal monitor 1
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep (1004 mV)  - unknown CPU or operating point.
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: apic clock running at 133 MHz
cpu0: 64 page colors
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: starting
cpu1: Intel Pentium Pro, II or III (686-class), 1596.01 MHz, id 0x6e8
cpu1: features bfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu1: features bfe9fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
cpu1: features bfe9fbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
cpu1: features2 c189<SSE3,MONITOR,EST,TM2,xTPR>
cpu1: "Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2050  @ 1.60GHz"
cpu1: I-cache 32 KB 64B/line 8-way, D-cache 32 KB 64B/line 8-way
cpu1: L2 cache 2 MB 64B/line 8-way
cpu1: using thermal monitor 1
cpu1: Enhanced SpeedStep (1004 mV)  - unknown CPU or operating point.

I'm running the GENERIC.MPACPI kernel, and things have been going 
just peachy so far... (X running at 1280x800x24 using xorg from 
pkgsrc.)

Later...

Greg Oster