The following reply was made to PR port-i386/35676; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: fukumoto@imasy.or.jp
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, port-i386-maintainer@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/35676: AMD PowerNow! inconsistent probe message 
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:15:08 +0900

 Now I've glanced the code in x86/x86/powernow_k8.c, and I'm wondering
 if it is intended to be used in multiprocessor environment.  It looks
 like writing sysctl "target" sets the core voltage and frequency of
 the current processor.  I don't know at all about PowerNow!, is it
 defined per core?  If it is, I think the sysctl should propagate
 information to all processors, or, it should provide
 interface to each specific processor.
 (I dug into http://developer.amd.com/documentation.jsp but couldn't
 find where the PowerNow documentation is.)
 
 
 						FUKUMOTO Atsushi
 						fukumoto@imasy.or.jp