[stable 9] broken hwpstate calls

[Yamagi Burmeister]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 16:05:56 -0400
Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> > if we decide so, then I think that we could still keep the things
> > "simple". As we currently use the "wholesale" approach (all CPUs
> > are set to the same P-state regardless of topology), then we could
> > first make a pass of writing the MSR on all processors with a new
> > P-state value and then make another pass of checking via MSR
> > C001_0063 that the P-state is acquired.
> 
> No, I believe checking MSRC001_0071[18:16] is much simpler if it
> works.  And it does not break current cpufreq(4) design principles.

Okay, thank's for your input. I'll come up with a patch. But it won't
happen until tuesday or wednesday next week.

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