[Clfs-dev] Hello again!

[Ken Moffat]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:37:38AM -0500, William Harrington wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 01:48:39 +0100
> Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> >  But a few months ago I managed to build a recent firefox, and to
> > get a 3.10 kernel which would stay up (the ppc64 defconfig didn't,
> > turned out to be the HighRes timers, I think).
> 
> I'm not sure which mac you have, but right now ondemand isn't enabled for the iMac G5 iSignt  PowerMac 12,1.  Here's a patch I put together from nabble's archives (I'm testing it after the kernel builds). Have you ran across this?
> 
> http://marc.info/?t=137461124900005&r=1&w=2
> 
 Mine is a bit older:
cpu		: PPC970FX, altivec supported
clock		: 900.000000MHz
platform	: PowerMac
model		: PowerMac9,1

 I used to use powernowd (userspace daemon) on all my past builds,
but this time I gave it a try without.  Now I'm just echoing
'ondemand' to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
and as the line above shows it idles at the slow speed.  But it
ramps up to its full speed (1800 MHz) doing 'tar -xvf', only to fall
back.  It also ramps up running configure scripts, unlike my x86
boxes.  This is with a 3.10.12 kernel.

 So no, I haven't seen the patch and I appear not to need it.

 Unfortunately, even at full speed it still takes for ever to
compile things (just over 8 hours to build and install firefox-24).

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