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Re: [patch] SpeedStep for PIII CPUs on PIIX4 chipsets

From: Stefan Sperling (stspstsp.in-berlin.de)
Date: Tue Mar 20 2007 - 08:44:35 CDT


On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 12:15:10PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> The NetBSD driver uses the bioscall [2] interface to
> query the BIOS for an I/O port and a special "signature"
> (PIIXPCIB_GSIC in the code below) that apparently indicates
> SpeedStep support.
> I don't know how to do the equivalent of this on OpenBSD.

Thanks to a helpful hint by Gordon Willem Klok this has now been
resolved. kvm86_simplecall() does the trick.

The driver is now complete wrt functionality.
Testing is welcome.

Updated patch is:
http://stsp.in-berlin.de/piixpcib/piixpcib-2007-03-20_3.diff

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stefan
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