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From: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove p4_clockmode driver
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:30:48 -0300
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Thomas Renninger escreveu:
> Remove p4_clockmode driver
> 
> The driver is doing throttling which is supposed to be done through another
> ACPI interface. If both interfaces are used, the machine may get very slow.
> Remove this driver which should never be used.

On the Dell Latitude D510 I use at work, acpi-cpufreq didn't load on the 
Ubuntu 7.10 kernel (2.6.22); of all the available cpufreq drivers, only 
p4-clockmod worked. I didn't try loading it on the Ubuntu 8.04 kernel 
(2.6.24) yet.

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