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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: governor implementations
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:27:01 +0100
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To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk, Nickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@cs.stanford.edu>

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:37:52PM -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:

 > Attached is a simple in-kernel CPU frequency governor. This has some
 > minor modification to the one that I had sent on this list, couple of
 > months back.

I have one major concern about this patch.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,298,448.WKU.&OS=PN/6,298,448&RS=PN/6,298,448

What do Intel's legal dept have to say about this?

		Dave