device cpufreq

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Tue May 24 08:59:26 PDT 2005


On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:31:16PM -0700, Neil Short wrote:
> I updated to 6.0-CURRENT to test out the powernow
> drivers on my machine. It's a laptop and the processor
> is AMD Athlon-xpm.
..
> carmen# dmesg
> ...
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor 3000+ (1595.89-MHz
> 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0xf48  Stepping = 8

I'm surprised by this output - you have a K8 core CPU (754-pin rev. C0).
Your BIOS should say something other than "Athlon(tm) XP".  What laptop
do you have?

> Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM
> OV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
>   AMD Features=0xc0500000<NX,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
> ...
> cpu0 on motherboard
> powernow0: <PowerNow! K8> on cpu0

This is correct.

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