From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix up CPU detection in p4-clockmod
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:50:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040110155048.GA17500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040110151248.GA7989@dominikbrodowski.de>
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:12:48PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Too many users use the p4-clockmod cpufreq driver instead of the more
> advanced speedstep-centrino, speedstep-ich or even acpi drivers. All of the
> latter (usually) provide voltage scaling, while the p4-clockmod driver only
> offers a variant of frequency scaling. So, warn users if they try out this
> driver instead.
>
> Also, instead of using a local copy, use the speedstep_lib infrastructure
> for detecting the processor speed. Adding the Pentium-M get_frequency
> function to that module only costs about 200 bytes in object size.
another idea might be putting the cpu identify code into a speedstep.ko
and have that request_module the right module
Dave.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-10 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-10 15:12 [PATCH] fix up CPU detection in p4-clockmod Dominik Brodowski
2004-01-10 15:50 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-01-10 16:19 ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-01-10 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-11 11:33 ` Dominik Brodowski
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