estX still not attaching properly

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 18 13:37:37 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 17 June 2009 2:29:25 pm Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> although i'm running a very recent current which has "ACPICA 20090521", estX
> still isn't attaching properly on my machine:
> 
> est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 925092506000925
> device_attach: est0 attach returned 6
> est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu1
> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
> est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 925092506000925
> device_attach: est1 attach returned 6

That just means ACPI isn't providing info about the speed steppings your CPU 
provides.  It is odd that cpu0 has freq_levels but cpu1 does not.

-- 
John Baldwin


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