Re: Pismo status

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:35:13PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2000, Sven LUTHER <luther@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> >So this mean that the G3 and G4 cpus have both the equivalent of
> >speedstep/whatever that AMD & Intel are introducing as a big novelty ?
> >
> 
> Yes, they do, Intel did nothing new in this regard. The G3 can monitor
> it's own junction temperature, can be programmed to fire exceptions when
> reaching a given level, and can control it's instruction cache throttle
> (which impact the speed and power consumption) via the ICTC register.
> This along with other power management features like DOZE and NAP modes,
> etc...

Thought so, and the G3 will also halt itself when a certain heat is acheived
in order to not burn itself, isn't it ?

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER