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Subject: Re: static freq table support for Pentium M Dothan
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Bruno Ducrot <ducrot <at> poupinou.org> writes:

> It's indeed the SMM interface, not direct hardware access, with also a
> broken mask (out of spec indeed) for the control register.

Ahh, and this is....bad I guess?

> I guess 'the other OS' may actually use somehow the full eax before doing
> the outb and then allowing somehow ancient version of speedstep to
> work...

It uses the whatwhat before doing the somethingsomething?
Please excuse my incompetence ;-)