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Re: adding machdep frequency support?



On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:08:08AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> However, modern CPUs will report minimum == maximum and est.c 
> will just ignore EST because it has no means to guess correct
> values.

What CPUs are you specifically talking about? I know that at least some
Core2 CPUs will have a fixed voltage, but fixed frequency ?!

> This is especially true on those CPUs that support 'overdrive',
> i.e. clocking one core higher if a second core isn't used.

The CPUs with overdrive support I have seen so far still list it as
separate frequency.

Joerg


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