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27.Dd September 7, 2020
28.Dt POWERNOW 4 x86
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm powernow
32.Nd AMD PowerNow! and Cool'n'Quiet
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "powernow0 at cpu0"
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38driver supports
39.Tn AMD
40.Dq PowerNow!
41and
42.Dq Cool'n'Quiet
43.Tn CPU
44frequency scaling technologies.
45The following
46.Xr sysctl 8
47variables are available with
48.Nm :
49.Bl -tag -width "machdep.cpu.frequency.available" -offset 2n
50.It Ic machdep.cpu.frequency.target
51The target frequency of the
52.Tn CPUs .
53.It Ic machdep.cpu.frequency.current
54The current frequency.
55.It Ic machdep.cpu.frequency.available
56The available frequencies.
57.El
58.Pp
59Note, however, that these variables are
60not guaranteed to exist in the future versions of
61.Nx .
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr acpicpu 4 ,
64.Xr x86/est 4 ,
65.Xr x86/odcm 4
66.Sh CAVEATS
67The
68.Nm
69driver is considered a legacy interface to
70be used only with relatively old systems.
71The driver supports only
72.Tn AMD
73processor families
74.Tn K7
75(for instance, Duron, Athlon, and some Semprons) and
76.Tn K8
77(namely, the early 64-bit family, including Athlon 64, Opteron, and Turion).
78