Subject: Re: Why Pstate could make NetBSD buggy ?
To: Jerome Loyet <jerome@loyet.net>
From: Thomas E. Spanjaard <tgen@netphreax.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/03/2006 12:59:36
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Jerome Loyet wrote:
> Jared D. McNeill wrote:
 >> Jerome Loyet wrote:
>>>A  part
>>>has a stable installation, the other part has a buggy   
>>>installation. After
>>>investigation, the ONLY difference is the version  of the BIOS. and 
>>>the difference is:
>>>The Pstate has been disabled on buggy BIOS and vcore as
>>>been augmented by 0.1v
>>Are you booting a NetBSD kernel with ACPI support?
> No, I'm using GENERIC kernel. Why ?

You are using APM though. Pstate is for power state, and power states 
can be running, standby, suspend, etc. I guess there's an issue there. 
Try running a kernel with APM disabled as well.

P.S.
Please fix your client to reply and quote properly :).

Cheers,
-- 
         Thomas E. Spanjaard
         tgen@netphreax.net

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