PIIXPCIB(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual PIIXPCIB(4)NAMEpiixpcib — Intel PIIX4 PCI-ISA bridge with SpeedStep
SYNOPSIS
piixpcib* at pci? dev ? function ?
isa* at piixpcib?
DESCRIPTION
The piixpcib driver provides support for the Intel PIIX and compatible
PCI-ISA Bridges with Intel's first generation SpeedStep.
Frequency scaling is supported on Pentium III with two voltage modes,
used by SpeedStep as power states low and high. The driver will switch
into low power state by reducing voltage and frequency of the CPU. The
factor depends on the processor itself, but will always reduce power con‐
sumption about 1/2.
The user can manually control the CPU frequency with the sysctl(8) pro‐
gram using the following node:
machdep.speedstep_state = [0/1]
SEE ALSOest(4), isa(4), pci(4), apmd(8), sysctl(8)HISTORY
The piixpcib driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.5 and then in NetBSD 4.0.
AUTHORS
The current piixpcib driver was written by Bruno Ducrot. It was ported
to NetBSD by Jared D. McNeill ⟨jmcneill@NetBSD.org⟩.
BSD March 1, 2011 BSD