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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: writing a frequency scaling processor module
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:31:35 -0400
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To: "Leisner, Martin" <Martin.Leisner@xerox.com>
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On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:04:51PM -0400, Leisner, Martin wrote:
 > I'm writing a cpufreq module for the ppc 7448 processor.
 > 
 > Its very nice the way cpufreq is laid out with the governors...is there
 > a 
 > "cookbook" approach to writing a processor interface?

Not really. Rumour has it that kernel programmers hate writing
documentation ;^)

 > I looked at cpu-drivers.txt in the kernel tree, and it's somewhat vague
 > and confusing (IMHO).
 > 
 > I'm using p4-clocmod.c as an example, are there better examples?
 
that, longhaul and powernow-k7 are fairly simple to understand.
Is there anything in particular you have problems understanding ?

	Dave

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