cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpi_support acpi_aiboost.c src/sys/modules/acpi/acpi_aiboost Makefile

[Nate Lawson]

Takanori Watanabe wrote:
> In message <20061030063756.GA564 at FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:38:48AM +0000, Takanori Watanabe wrote:
>>> takawata    2006-10-30 05:38:48 UTC
>>>
>>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>>
>>>   Added files:
>>>     sys/dev/acpi_support acpi_aiboost.c 
>>>     sys/modules/acpi/acpi_aiboost Makefile 
>>>   Log:
>>>   Driver for some ASUS desktop motherboard extras.
>>>   Though it is named after overclocking tool for ASUS motherboards,
>>>   it is not capable to change clock ratio or CPU core voltage.
>> Will it ever be?
> 
> I don't know. It seems some additional features exists for CPU device.
> But I don't know  how to enable it, because it seems to be loaded 
> from BIOS scratch memory area. Passing _PDC to appropriate value may
> make it appear some method to control such feature, it seems.

We only have a little support for _PDC currently (i.e. acpi_cpu).  But 
more importantly, we need to implement the advanced features in 3.0 
before enabling them via _PDC.

-- 
Nate