[laptop-discuss] PowerNow AMD Athlon64 X2 (dual core)

Milan Jurik Milan.Jurik at Sun.COM
Tue Jun 3 11:51:46 PDT 2008


Hi Oliver,

Oliver Večernik píše v po 02. 06. 2008 v 21:35 -0700:
> I'm evaluating OpenSolaris 2008.05 for a new system with an AMD Athlon64 X2 4850+ (dual core), but as far as I've seen, there seems to be no support for PowerNow. Searching the archive gives some discussions, but I can't believe, that there are no plans to implement this feature.
> 
> It works out of the box in Linux (Ubuntu), but I really would like to use OpenSolaris with ZFS.
> 
> Is there a schedule to implement this feature?
> 

Probably not in near future, maybe never. Opensolaris is based on
accurate timming. If you motherboard supports Barcelona based AMD, then
change to that CPU.

Best regards,

Milan



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