speedstep / cpu frequency control on 6-stable?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 06:08, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What ids the current way to control cpu speed (and power consumption)
> in FreeBSD 6-stable?
> Before, est was one way, but all traces of est has disappeared
> from /etc/defaults/rc.conf and thereabouts.
> I find something about powerd and power_profile, but they don't seem to
> work, and I can't seem to find out what variables / configuration items
> to set. 'man cpufreq' isn't much help in that regard either.

Loading cpufreq should give you sysctl's which control CPU frequency. powerd 
uses these to adjust frequency based on load.

I have this in rc.conf
powerd_enable="YES"
powerd_flags="-i 70 -r 30 -a adaptive -b adaptive -n adaptive -p 200"

And in dmesg..
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0

And sysctl..
dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.0.freq: 1225
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1400/-1 1225/-1 1200/-1 1050/-1 1000/-1 875/-1 800/-1 
700/-1 600/-1 525/-1 450/-1 375/-1 300/-1 225/-1 150/-1 75/-1

(This is a Pentium-M 1.4Ghz)

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