>Any plans in the pipeline to support the "older" AMD procs like Athlon 64 X2 
>4850E?
>This feature does make a big difference in system power usage. When my system 
>runs Solaris is cons
umes 90 watt, and when it runs an OS (windows or linux) which does support this 
it consumes 68 watt
.


Never.  The powernow driver works for single CPU, single core.
Solaris uses the TSC for almost everything and "fixing" that and
making the wall clock sane is difficult.

Casper

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