On 2019-06-12, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > If you're on an old BIOS revision for the APU (more than a couple of > months old), try updating, they have enabled "core performance boost" > which increases speed of a single core if the others are not under > heavy load. > > I haven't done network benchmarks but there is a noticable improvement > in some other things (md5 -tt goes from 12 -> 9 seconds). > > To update BIOS from OpenBSD, pkg_add flashrom and download the BIOS > version for your board (https://pcengines.github.io/). Go to serial > console and reboot in single-user mode (boot -s), mount -a, and run > "flashrom --programmer internal -w apuX_vXXX.rom". Then reboot back > as normal.
Apologies I should have said: it should be power cycled at this point, not just a standard reboot. > If you'd like to compare benchmarks, the feature can be toggled > from the setup menu in BIOS. > > https://blog.3mdeb.com/2019/2019-02-14-enabling-cpb-on-pcengines-apu2/ > > >
