Hi,
For over a year I've build and somewhat maintained code that allows
clockscaling for older, not p-state variant CPU's. These CPU are
supported by OpenSolaris but run only a full speed. This introduces
annoying issues like high levels fans noise and high power usage.
I used to have a cpudrv that would replace the standard cpudrv and did
magic. The magic being the use of Casper Dik's clockscale code and some
tweaking from my side. This has proven to work on Intel, AMD and VIA
CPU's. For over a year at some cases.
Since build 109 all this has broken. No doubt with good reason, but still.
I managed to re-engineer the code so that I can compile a new kernel,
but booting (in vanilla 2009/06) it results in an weird error (this
manually copy/paste do i may have made a typo):
not found: print_msg_hwerr
krtld: error during initial load/link phase
krtld could neither locate nor resolve symbols for:
/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix
in the boot archive. Please verify this file
matches what is found in the boot archive.
You may need to boot using the Solaris failasafe to fix this.
Unable to boot
Press any key to reboot.
To prevent wrong discussions:
- its a new BE on the 2009.06 environment. Thats quite OK (I can boot
that before and afterwards)
- I did rebuild the boot archive before booting (by mounting the BE /)
- This behaviour occurs both in a VirtualBox and on a bare metal AMD box.
I'm looking for anybody that can give some support on getting this
working. I'm not looking for an official support of this code (however -
it would be nice...), but anybody with old style laptops, PC's or VIA
CPU's most likely will be great full!
I can (and will) mail all changes I've made to ON, but I hate to clutter
this alias by appending these right now.
Regards,
Tom de Waal
