Fujitsu P8010: est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized (only amd64)

[Anish Mistry]

On Friday 29 February 2008, Yousif Hassan wrote:
> On Friday 29 February 2008, Anish Mistry wrote:
> > On Friday 29 February 2008, Yousif Hassan wrote:
> > > Anish Mistry wrote:
> > >> I got a new Fujitsu P8010 and est doesn't seem to attach to my
> > >> dual core processor since it doesn't recognize the CPU.  My
> > >> dmesg is linked at the end of the email.  Is there anything I
> > >> can do to add it?
>
> <snip>
>
> >>Anish, are you running amd64?  This seems to be a recurring theme
> >>with amd64, based on some research I did and based on my
> >> anecdotal evidence.
> >
> >Yes, I'm running amd64.
>
> If you're willing, try an i386 kernel and see if the est driver
> attaches. If using i386 isn't a non-starter for you, that's a
> workaround.
>
> That said, I still hope someone who knows this stuff can comment on
> this definitively.  It seems odd that i386 attaches est fine, but
> amd64 doesn't.
Alright, I booted the i386 install CD and est attaches est0, est1, 
p4tcc0, and p4tcc1.  If a developer needs some debug information to 
get this fixed let me know.  I'm running with 4GB or RAM so I'd 
rather stick with amd64.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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