Re: SpeedStep suport under 5.3

El lun, 11-10-2004 a las 10:12, Vince Hoffman escribió:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> 
> > Jan Kusniar wrote:
> >
> >> Just one question: Is Intel SpeedStep supported under FreeBSD 5.3 BETA6. 
> >> I've got HP nx9020 (Celeron M) and I am not sure if SpeedStep works. If 
> >> it's, how sholud I enable it? I couldn't find anything about it in GENERIC 
> >> or NOTES config files.
> >
> > Currently people are working on this. Pentium-M is already done, tests for 
> > PIII-M etc. are in work. All this is going to be put into one central module 
> > / programm, called cpufreq. Then there will be native (enhanced) speedstep 
> > for most processors. This won't be in 5.3 though.
> >
> Actualy its already in ports (rather than the base system)
> 
> (11:06:38 </usr/ports/sysutils/est>) 0 $ more pkg-descr
> This is a driver for the Enhanced SpeedStep feature in Intel Pentium M
> processors.
> 
> WWW: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-est/
> 
> 
> you will also need estctrl to control it.
> 

Yes, it changes the CPU freq, but it does not change the voltages... so
the battery life gets no longer.. 8(





good luck,
> 
> 
> > Cheers, Jochen
> >
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