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25 December 2012 ~ Comments Off

Soekris CPU Scaling and OpenBSD 5.2

BIOS Soekris atom net6501 openbsd

OpenBSD 5.2 was released nearly two months ago and I had forgotten to upgrade my Soekris net6501, apart from my driver now being part of the kernel, this release also added support to the SpeedStep frequency scaling driver for the Atom CPU. The simple benchmark to keep in mind is using the md5(1) command, using [...]

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09 June 2012 ~ Comments Off

Soekris net6501 improvements for OpenBSD

Soekris atom net6501 openbsd watchdog

I’ve recently had committed to the OpenBSD project a kernel driver, tcpcib(4), that adds support for the hardware watchdog and HPET found in the Soekris net6501, (although it should also work on any system based around the Intel Atom E600 “Tunnel Creek” processor). I’ve not had any issue with my net6501 that has required a [...]

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