SpeedStep suport under 5.3

[Vince Hoffman]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Jochen Gensch wrote:

> Jan Kusniar wrote:
>
>> Just one question: Is Intel SpeedStep supported under FreeBSD 5.3 BETA6. 
>> I've got HP nx9020 (Celeron M) and I am not sure if SpeedStep works. If 
>> it's, how sholud I enable it? I couldn't find anything about it in GENERIC 
>> or NOTES config files.
>
> Currently people are working on this. Pentium-M is already done, tests for 
> PIII-M etc. are in work. All this is going to be put into one central module 
> / programm, called cpufreq. Then there will be native (enhanced) speedstep 
> for most processors. This won't be in 5.3 though.
>
Actualy its already in ports (rather than the base system)

(11:06:38 </usr/ports/sysutils/est>) 0 $ more pkg-descr
This is a driver for the Enhanced SpeedStep feature in Intel Pentium M
processors.

WWW: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-est/


you will also need estctrl to control it.



> Cheers, Jochen
>
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