Re: 9.0-BETA2 do not support SpeedStep on E5420

From: K. Macy <kmacy_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:26:03 +0200
I was just discussing this issues with some others - evidently est(9)
works fine on both older and newer cpus. I see you're active on lkml -
does the linux driver work correctly on this machine? i.e. do you know
that it isn't disabled in the BIOS.

Thanks

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >From today's -CURRENT:
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2011 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 #17 r225560+be1f8b9: Thu Sep 15 12:05:41 EDT 2011
>    al_at_shai-hulud:/data/src/freebsd/obj/master/i386.i386/data/src/freebsd/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5420  _at_ 2.50GHz (2493.80-MHz 686-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x1067a  Family = 6  Model = 17  Stepping = 10
>  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>  Features2=0x40ce3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1,XSAVE>
>  AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>  TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
> real memory  = 6442450944 (6144 MB)
> avail memory = 3677458432 (3507 MB)
> Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400
> ACPI APIC Table: <100509 APIC1714>
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
> FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
>  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
>  cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
>  cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3
>  cpu4 (AP): APIC ID:  4
>  cpu5 (AP): APIC ID:  5
>  cpu6 (AP): APIC ID:  6
>  cpu7 (AP): APIC ID:  7
> [...]
> est0: failed to enable SpeedStep
> p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0
> est1: failed to enable SpeedStep
> p4tcc1: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu1
> est2: failed to enable SpeedStep
> p4tcc2: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu2
> est3: failed to enable SpeedStep
> p4tcc3: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu3
> est4: failed to enable SpeedStep
> p4tcc4: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu4
> est5: failed to enable SpeedStep
> p4tcc5: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu5
> est6: failed to enable SpeedStep
> p4tcc6: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu6
> est7: failed to enable SpeedStep
> p4tcc7: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu7
>
> It feels strange that the latest FreeBSD do not support est(4) on a 3
> years old CPU...
>
> Thanks,
>  - Arnaud
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