!CPUFreq released

A utility to monitor, display and alter CPU speed settings on RISC OS hardware that supports slow/fast CPU speed switching (e.g. Beagleboard and Pandaboard) has been released and is available from !Store.

The utility will continuously display CPU speed and allow the ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ speed (which the OS automatically switches between depending whether it is idling or working) to be set within the minimum to maximum range supported by the hardware (via the ‘Portable_Speed2’ SWI).

Full interactive help is provided by the !Help application.

What does it do that CPUClock doesn’t?

I don’t like CPUclock. I want to see the CPU speed on the icon bar, not in a separate window.

!CPUFreq displays the CPU speed explicitly as e.g. ‘1000MHz’ and allows the ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ speed to be set to any available speed between the ‘min’ and ‘max’ speed allowed by the ‘Portable_Speed2’ SWI on the hardware concerned.

Personal choice, I suppose. Anyway it’s not what you do but the way that you do it!

Why didn’t you just use !CPUTmpMon, the PB version of which puts both the cpu speed and the cpu temperature on the iconbar in one icon? It has been available for some time via Chris Gransden.

Is CPUTmpMon platform agnostic? I have not used direct hardware access (OS_Memory and the like) just SWIs (edit: like Portable_Speed that don’t need direct hardware access).

Writing my own utility (it is written in BASIC) allows it to be distributed by others and customised to meet their needs.

Is CPUTmpMon platform agnostic? I have not used direct hardware access (OS_Memory and the like) just SWIs.

I think OS_Memory might be a SWI too… :-)

Writing my own utility (it is written in BASIC) allows it to be distributed by others and customised to meet their needs.

CPUTmpMon looks to be written in BASIC as well.

It’s nice seeing the cpu speed on the iconbar! Great app Cheers!