Michael Nottebrock writes:
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> I've been wondering lately why my AthlonTB runs at a quite high
> idle-temperature and I came across this page:
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> http://vcool.occludo.net/VC_Theory.html
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> Does someone feel like getting something similar into our kernel?
>
If you have a VIA KT266A chipset then you can do something like this:
# turn on HALT bit in register 0x95 of the KT266a -> CPU runs much cooler
# NOTE: the register had 0x1c when I checked it
echo Enable halt bit in KT266A
/usr/sbin/pciconf -w -b pci0:0:0 0x95 0x1e
which I have in /etc/rc.local. My Athlon runs about 15 C cooler with
this. Bit 1 of register 0x95 controls idling of the CPU.
Here's a step-by-step description:
Do the following as root:
1) pciconf -l -v
this lists all the PCI chipsets found at boot time. I see
agp0@pci0:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x30991106 chip=0x30991106 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
device = 'VT8366/A Apollo KT266/A,KT333 CPU to PCI Bridge'
class = bridge
subclass = HOST-PCI
So I have a KT266(A) at pci0:0:0
2) pciconf -r -b pci0:0:0 0x95
0x1c
Bit 1 isn't set
3) pciconf -w -b pci0:0:0 0x95 0x1e
turns on bit 1.
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