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From: Felix Braun <Felix.Braun@mail.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14] cpufreq: don't suggest speedstep-centrino for
 Dothan-based Celeron-M processors
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:52:35 +0100
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To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: CPUFreq@lists.linux.org.uk, Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>, davej@redhat.com


On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:26:52 -0800 "Pallipadi, Venkatesh"
<venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:

> P4-clockmod will only do the duty-cycle based throttling and will
> not save any significant power. In fact, CPU may end up consuming more
> power than without it [...]. It will only help in thermal conditions
> and ACPI throttling driver should handle that anyway.

By "ACPI throttling driver" do you mean arch/i386/.../acpi_cpufreq? That
driver didn't work for me :-( I get a error: no such device when I try to
load it as a module. I haven't looked into that yet.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the information

Felix