[OpenIndiana-discuss] powernow driver

[村川 了]

Hi, Albert.

I checked my cpu with kstat. But my cpu family is 15.
Therefore I didn't use the built-in powernow function.
This means I can't use PowerNow! function on OI.

Is it right?

Ryo

On 2011/05/24, at 10:17, Albert Lee wrote:

> 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
> 
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