powernow not working on AMD Athlon XP Mobile

2011-09-11 Thread Maurizio Lombardi
Hi, I installed DFly on an old laptop with an AMD Athlon XP-Mobile processor, unfortunately I'm unable to scale down the processor frequency, it's a problem for me because it makes the laptop to become very hot. First of all, I tried to load the powernow kernel module: #kldload powernow.ko but

Re: powernow not working on AMD Athlon XP Mobile

2011-09-11 Thread Maurizio Lombardi
I'm looking at the DFly BSD powernow and the FreeBSD's powernow drivers differences. If I'm not wrong, the DFly powernow does not support the K7 architecture, is it correct? -- Maurizio Lombardi

Re: powernow not working on AMD Athlon XP Mobile

2011-09-11 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Maurizio Lombardi m.lombard...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking at the DFly BSD powernow and the FreeBSD's powernow drivers differences. If I'm not wrong, the DFly powernow does not support the K7 architecture, is it correct? Under most of the cases, powernow

Streamline pkgsrc issues: DragonFly developer gained NetBSD commit privilege

2011-09-11 Thread John Marino
Hi @users, With all my work upgrading gcc, binutils, rtld, and ELF handling, I was invited to become a DragonFly developer earlier this year, which I was honored to accept. A couple of months ago, the NetBSD foundation extended a similar offer to me based on my work with Ada packages and pkgsrc