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17.Dd March 1, 2011
18.Dt PIIXPCIB 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm piixpcib
22.Nd Intel PIIX4 PCI-ISA bridge with SpeedStep
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "piixpcib* at pci? dev ? function ?"
25.Cd "isa* at piixpcib?"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides support for the Intel PIIX and compatible PCI-ISA Bridges
30with Intel's first generation SpeedStep.
31.Pp
32Frequency scaling is supported on Pentium III with two voltage modes,
33used by SpeedStep as power states low and high.
34The driver will switch into low power state by reducing voltage
35and frequency of the CPU.
36The factor depends on the processor itself, but
37will always reduce power consumption about 1/2.
38.Pp
39The user can manually control the CPU frequency with the
40.Xr sysctl 8
41program using the following node:
42.Bl -tag -width usscanner -offset indent
43.It machdep.speedstep_state = [0/1]
44.El
45.Sh SEE ALSO
46.Xr est 4 ,
47.Xr isa 4 ,
48.Xr pci 4 ,
49.Xr apmd 8 ,
50.Xr sysctl 8
51.Sh HISTORY
52The
53.Nm
54driver first appeared in
55.Fx 5.5
56and then in
57.Nx 4.0 .
58.Sh AUTHORS
59.An -nosplit
60The current
61.Nm
62driver was written by
63.An Bruno Ducrot .
64It was ported to
65.Nx
66by
67.An Jared D. McNeill Aq Mt jmcneill@NetBSD.org .
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