From: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
To: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speedstep-centrino should ignore upper performance control bits
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:57:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061107185713.GC11620@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061106233923.GA15063@us.ibm.com>
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:39:23PM -0800, Gary Hade wrote:
>
> On some systems such as the IBM x3650 there are bits set in the
> upper half of the control values provided by the _PSS object.
> These bits are only relevant for cpufreq drivers that use IO ports
> which are not currently supported by the speedstep-centrino driver.
> The current MSR oriented code assumes that upper bits are not set
> and thus fails to work correctly when they are. e.g. the control
> and status value equality check fails even though the ACPI spec
> allows the inequality.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyh@us.ibm.com>
Sorry, incorrect email address. This should be
Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Gary
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-07 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-06 23:39 [PATCH] speedstep-centrino should ignore upper performance control bits Gary Hade
2006-11-07 2:14 ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-11-07 7:09 ` Len Brown
2006-11-07 18:49 ` Gary Hade
2006-11-08 23:21 ` Gary Hade
2006-11-08 23:29 ` Dave Jones
2006-11-09 0:00 ` Gary Hade
2006-11-09 0:22 ` Dave Jones
2006-11-10 19:20 ` Gary Hade
2006-11-07 18:57 ` Gary Hade [this message]
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