Re: acpi question

2009-09-05 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:13:53PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote:
 hi there,
 
 poking around in my bios i have found the following setting:
 
 Power Now!(tm) Technology [Enabled]
 
 the help message says:
 
 Enable/disable the generation of ACPI _PPC, _PSS, and _PCT objects.
 
 if anybody knowledgable reads this, what does this mean
 and how would flipping this affect openbsd?  thanks.

Well it provides acpi objects that tell OpenBSD which performance
states your cpu(s) supports.

You want to read 8.4.4 here:
http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec40.pdf

For the effect on OpenBSD, you would read some files in /usr/src/sys..

In short, leave it enabled.

Tobias

 
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acpi question

2009-09-04 Thread frantisek holop
hi there,

poking around in my bios i have found the following setting:

Power Now!(tm) Technology [Enabled]

the help message says:

Enable/disable the generation of ACPI _PPC, _PSS, and _PCT objects.

if anybody knowledgable reads this, what does this mean
and how would flipping this affect openbsd?  thanks.

-f
-- 
there is only one universal passion: fear.



Re: acpi question

2009-09-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
Leave it enabled.

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:13:53PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote:
 hi there,
 
 poking around in my bios i have found the following setting:
 
 Power Now!(tm) Technology [Enabled]
 
 the help message says:
 
 Enable/disable the generation of ACPI _PPC, _PSS, and _PCT objects.
 
 if anybody knowledgable reads this, what does this mean
 and how would flipping this affect openbsd?  thanks.
 
 -f
 -- 
 there is only one universal passion: fear.