[OpenIndiana-discuss] powernow driver

[Albert Lee]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:29 PM, 村川 了 <fzz01471 at nifty.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using OI b148 on ThinkPad x100e.
> I found I have no powernow driver in OI b148.
> Therefore CPU always run 100% and battery life is too short.
> I want to know where powernow driver is in OI b148.
>

There is built-in support for PowerNow! on AMD CPU families 10h and
later[1], so that processor is probably new enough. Did you try
enabling CPU power management?

[1] http://blogs.oracle.com/mhaywood/entry/powernow_for_solaris

-Albert