[pm-discuss] Gateway netbook/AMD Athlon 64 L110 support?

[Joanmarie Diggs]

Hi all.

I bought one of the new Gateway netbooks. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 64
L110. I couldn't (and still cannot) find any official spec that
indicates whether or not it supports PowerNow! But I assumed being brand
new that surely it would....

$ kstat -m cpu_info -i 0 -s implementation
module: cpu_info                        instance: 0     
name:   cpu_info0                       class:    misc
        implementation                  x86 (AuthenticAMD 70FC2 family 15 model 
124 step 2 clock 1200 MHz)

$ kstat -m cpu_info -i 0 -s supported_frequencies_Hz
module: cpu_info                        instance: 0     
name:   cpu_info0                       class:    misc
        supported_frequencies_Hz        1196896347

Oops. :-)

Should I read the above as "OpenSolaris doesn't support power management
on this processor *at the moment*" or as "OpenSolaris will never be
capable of supporting power management on this processor"?

Thanks and take care.
--joanie