Re: cpufreq not working as module on i386/amd64

2012-12-25 Thread Jia-Shiun Li
I was cleaning up hard drive and found these old logs. Anyway I added some printf() and saw the process failed at device_find_child(..., acpi_perf, ...) of est_acpi_info() i.e. it cannot find acpi_perf device. devinfo did confirmed the absence of acpi_perf. Comparing the dmesgs revealed the main

Re: cpufreq not working as module on i386/amd64

2011-02-15 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 29/01/2011 10:41 Alexander Best said the following: that's rather odd. for me neither the module nor the kernel code works, since my cpu isn't supported by sys/x86/cpufreq/est.c. actually only pentium mobile cpus seem to be supported. That's a little bit of misinformation. Primarily est

Re: cpufreq not working as module on i386/amd64

2011-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Jan 29 11, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: Hi all, I found that cpufreq driver failed to attach when compiled as module and loaded, but it works fine when compiled into kernel. I am wondering if this is due to some kind of limitation, or can be fixed? that's rather odd. for me neither the module

cpufreq not working as module on i386/amd64

2011-01-28 Thread Jia-Shiun Li
Hi all, I found that cpufreq driver failed to attach when compiled as module and loaded, but it works fine when compiled into kernel. I am wondering if this is due to some kind of limitation, or can be fixed? Tested on a Pentium E5200 desktop (i386) and a Pentium T4200 laptop (amd64). Both got