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From: Ducrot Bruno <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Subject: Re: Cleanups for powernow-k8
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:33:35 +0100
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To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, paul.devriendt@amd.com, pavel@ucw.cz, cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk, linux@brodo.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:06:05PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> For minimal parsing of the ACPI P state tables, we shouldn't need the
> full-blown interpretor IMO.

Unfortunately, no.
Some laptop use a _INI method in order to 'write' to the _PST node..
In such laptop, the only parsing option will give you only crasp 
(see some post related to this issue on the ACPI dev list).

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