PowerNow in mobile AthlonXP

[Scott Lambert]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:08:38PM +0100, Sascha Klauder wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:13:59PM -0500, Scott Lambert wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Scott Lambert wrote:
> > > > My DSDT may be messed up.  However, thanks to Bruno, I now have the
> > > > ability to set my processor speed to six different levels without going
> > > > through ACPI.  This has significantly cooled my lap, reduced local noise
> > > Uh...that sounds pretty cool.  Where to pick up the patches?
> > > Please? :)
> > http://poupinou.org/cpufreq/bsd/powernow_k7.tar.gz
> 
> Loads fine on my HP nx9005 (5.0-CURRENT just a few days old),
> but does not register the sysctl OIDs.  Quickly inserting a
> few printf()'s indicates that retrieve_conf_from_bios() fails
> somehow, but I'm at a loss at how to fix that right now. 

Bruno apparantly didn't take my gross hack to double the number of pst
entries to search.

In retrieve_conf_from_bios(), try changing :
                for (i = 0; i < psb->numpst; i++) {
to:
                for (i = 0; i < psb->numpst * 2 ; i++) {

On my laptop the matching entry is at i = 16 even though 
psb->numpst = 14.
 
> But it's pretty cool that Bruno ported it nonetheless! Maybe
> I get it running on my nx9005 somehow.
> 
> > Bruno also found a little bug in sys/dev/acpica/acpi_cpu.c
> > that was preventing my machine from showing the C2 option on
> > hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported.
> 
> Is this in CVS already?

Nate committed it just a few minutes ago.
 
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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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