amd powernow on athlon xp-m 3000+

Bruno Ducrot ducrot at poupinou.org
Mon Nov 15 09:51:48 PST 2004


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?

> 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 ;)

Cheers,

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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