[speedstep] testers wanted

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 11:24:12AM +0100, Timo Geusch wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:42:19PM +0200, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just finished a speedstep driver for p3m and p4m but it's a little bit
> > ugly, and worst it would work only with ich chipsets.  Even worst, I
> > don't have the hardware so I can't test it.
> > 
> > Some brave soul can found this in
> > http://www.poupinou.org/cpufreq/bsd/
> > and it's named ichist.ugly.tar.gz
> 
> Compiled on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 running 5.3-BETAsomething,
> currently updating to the latest incarnation of -BETA4.
> 
> It does load and recognise a device, plus I get the following output
> from sysctl -a | grep ich, which I assume is from your driver:
> 
> dev.ichist.0.%desc: Intel ICH2m LPC bridge
> dev.ichist.0.%driver: ichist
> dev.ichist.0.%parent: nexus0
> dev.ichist.0.speedstep: 1
> 
> Anything specific that you need to have tested?

Yup, you should be on the lower frequency/voltage.  Could you please:
openssl speed sha1
sysctl dev.ichist.0.speedstep=0
openssl speed sha1

and see if results differ?

Thanks,

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Bruno Ducrot

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