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[Slice]

mercurysquad, on Sep 19 2008, 11:42 PM, said:

Does 10.4.6 support multiprocessor systems??

Seems no.

I made Tiger version (with rendezvous!) but I am not clear what to check.
System 10.4.9 Core2Duo.
SpeedStep loaded, ask password and finish.
DCPUManager show percent idle as in my previous post.
What else?

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[mercurysquad]

Slice, on Sep 20 2008, 03:01 AM, said:

Seems no.

I made Tiger version (with rendezvous!) but I am not clear what to check.
System 10.4.9 Core2Duo.
SpeedStep loaded, ask password and finish.
DCPUManager show percent idle as in my previous post.
What else?

You should check output of

sysctl -a | grep throttle

after loading the kext. If you get no output related to the kern.cputhrottle, that means the kext itself is not loading properly. Otherwise you can use the sysctl keys for information and debugging.

[Slice]

kextload: extension /Off/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext appears to be valid
kextload: loading extension /Off/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext
kextload: /Off/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext loaded successfully
kextload: loading personalities named:
kextload:	 IntelEnhancedSpeedStep
kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel
kextload: matching started for /Off/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext
sergeys-computer:~ root# sysctl -a | grep throttle
kern.exec: unknown type returned

I don't know.

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[Alex HQuest]

At first, looks "acceptable":

bash-3.2# kextload -v /System/Library/Extensions/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext
extension /System/Library/Extensions/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext has potential problems:
Warnings
{
	"Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style" = true
}

kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext appears to be loadable
kextload: loading extension /System/Library/Extensions/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext
kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext loaded successfully
kextload: sending personalities to kernel:
kextload:	 from extension /System/Library/Extensions/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext:
kextload:		 IntelEnhancedSpeedStep
kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel
kextload: matching started for /System/Library/Extensions/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext

But at Console messages:

9/21/08 12:41:53 PM kernel IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: WARN  No Intel processor found! You have GenuineIntel. Kext will not load

OK, so my "GenuineIntel" is not "Intel". Say, is this kext for Core CPUs only?

bash-3.2# sysctl machdep.cpu.features
machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL CID TPR
bash-3.2# sysctl machdep.cpu.model
machdep.cpu.model: 4
bash-3.2# sysctl machdep.cpu.family
machdep.cpu.family: 15
bash-3.2# sysctl machdep.cpu.brand_string
machdep.cpu.brand_string: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
bash-3.2# sysctl machdep.cpu.vendor
machdep.cpu.vendor: GenuineIntel

[mercurysquad]

Alex HQuest, on Sep 21 2008, 09:16 PM, said:

9/21/08 12:41:53 PM kernel IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: WARN  No Intel processor found! You have GenuineIntel. Kext will not load

OK, so my "GenuineIntel" is not "Intel". Say, is this kext for Core CPUs only?

bash-3.2# sysctl machdep.cpu.features
machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL CID TPR

Hi, your cpu doesn't support enhanced speedstep. The cpu features line should have had "EST" in it. Look at mine:
machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS TM EST TM2

If you look at the source, line 226/227, it checks that the string is GenuineIntel (it is), but also that EST is actually supported (it's not). I should add a more explanatory note in the failure message, thanks for the heads up.

[Slice]

Some news (10.4.6)

Sep 22 15:28:09 sergey-computer kernel[0]: IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO  Initializing version 1.3.2 (C) Prashant Vaibhav <-- I think it is not correct to show e-mail here-->
Sep 22 15:28:09 sergey-computer kernel[0]: IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: WARN  EFI registry entry not found!

It should work only with EFI?

[xghost]

kext seems to work fine on my system. I run an Acer 5220 Core2Duo 2,2GHz Leopard 10.5.5 Vanilla Kernel.
Frequencies available: 800, 1200, 1600, 2200. Speedstep works. System is relatively smooth. Animations are a bit choppy but that's acceptable. Sleep/ Wakeup works. Great Work so far!

[mercurysquad]

Slice, on Sep 22 2008, 05:03 PM, said:

Some news (10.4.6)

Sep 22 15:28:09 sergey-computer kernel[0]: IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: INFO  Initializing version 1.3.2 (C) Prashant Vaibhav <-- I think it is not correct to show e-mail here-->
Sep 22 15:28:09 sergey-computer kernel[0]: IntelEnhancedSpeedStep: WARN  EFI registry entry not found!

It should work only with EFI?

Yes. To get cpu info, pstates etc.

[kmikase]

My system seems to work fine and when i launch speedstep i can see frequencies going from 800 to 2500.
But i would like to be sure that both cores are activited. Is there a command in the terminal to check this.
So far, after having installing the intelenhencedspeedstep.kext sleep ain't working.
Does speedstep has to be running if we want the cpu to change its frequency according to its need ?
thanks

[KAIBA]

Does the intelspeedstep.kext replaces the appleacpithermal.kext in AppleAcpiPlatform.kext?

also do u have a appleacpithermal.kext version 1.1.0 around?

[mercurysquad]

kmikase, on Sep 23 2008, 04:52 AM, said:

My system seems to work fine and when i launch speedstep i can see frequencies going from 800 to 2500.
But i would like to be sure that both cores are activited. Is there a command in the terminal to check this.
So far, after having installing the intelenhencedspeedstep.kext sleep ain't working.
Does speedstep has to be running if we want the cpu to change its frequency according to its need ?
thanks

I've tested and the kext works fine for all cores - don't worry about it.

As for sleep, make sure you are either using vanilla kernel, or voodoo kernel, or ToH sleep kernel. You don't need a toh speedstep kernel, and a speedstep kernel cannot sleep.

KAIBA, on Sep 23 2008, 09:39 AM, said:

Does the intelspeedstep.kext replaces the appleacpithermal.kext in AppleAcpiPlatform.kext?

also do u have a appleacpithermal.kext version 1.1.0 around?

No, it only replaces ACPICPUThrottle.kext and AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext.

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