Re: wrong estd value

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On 30 Aug 2008, at 11:38, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> My Dell XPS M1330 has a "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7300  @  
> 2.00GHz"
> CPU.
> But sysctl reports 2200 MHz option for machdep.est.frequency:
> machdep.est.frequency.target = 1200
> machdep.est.frequency.current = 1200
> machdep.est.frequency.available = 2200 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200


That's correct. Intel calls this feature "Enhanced Dynamic  
Acceleration Technology".
It allows to overclock the CPU if only one core is active.

        Kind regards

P.S. This really belongs on "port-i386%NetBSD.org@localhost".

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