On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ross Penner wrote: > > Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In > > examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates > > that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip > > have support that I don't know of? If not, will it? Otherwise, will > > specifying the chipset as C3 help or hinder my environment? > > I know this is not an answer, but why not just upgrade to 7.0 if you > need the C7 support?
I probably will. I just thought I'd try and see if I could stay on stable first. > My second question is in regards to the CPU frequency control. I've > > seen that the C7 gets support for cpufreq in 7 current, but I'm > > running 6. Without support in cpufreq, what speed would my processor > > be running at? I've always thought my performance has been lackluster > > so I suspect it's running at the lower clock speed. > > If cpufreq/powerd is not active, your processor is running full-speed. > You can check this with "sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq" if it's available on > your system. sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 Erik > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
