Re: amd powernow on athlon xp-m 3000+

Hi Bruno,

On Mon Nov 15, 2004 at 06:51PM +0100, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 05:10:59PM +0100, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> > 
> > But due recent readings I find out that there are two versions of the
> > athlon xp-m 3000 cpu! The first version is based on the barton core and the
> > second one is based on the ahlon64 clamath (or so) core (with disabled
> > amd64 features). The cpu I have is the athlon64 based one. A few hours
> > ago I tried some linux livecds and no one could take use of the powernow-k7
> > module. Some newer kernels (>= 2.6.8) could use powernow-k8 with my cpu.
> 
> I though there is only one, the other being a semptron?

Correct. I think the semptron and the amd athlon xp-m 3000+ are the same
cpus with different cpu-strings. Maybe there are other differencens, but
I don't know them.

> > I think thats this situation isn't so simple solveable on the current
> > situation on FreeBSD. Please correct me if I am wrong. ;)
> 
> You are right for now.  But that may change in the near future ;)

If you would like to spend time to create or port the existing driver to
FreeBSD I would like to help. I have some good c knowlegde but not on the
hardware-layer. ;)

I currently read the linux driver and so if I can create and prototype
or something similiar...

best regards,

	Gordon

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