From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dominik Brodowski Subject: Re: writing a cpufreq driver Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:19:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20061002021947.GE19253@isilmar.linta.de> References: <20060922153948.GN4945@poupinou.org> <20060922160025.GA4459@dbz.icequake.net> <20060922160514.GQ4945@poupinou.org> <20060922161149.GC4459@dbz.icequake.net> <20060923150751.GR4945@poupinou.org> <20060923152144.GA15964@dbz.icequake.net> <20060923154442.GT4945@poupinou.org> <20060923160335.GB15964@dbz.icequake.net> <20060923161311.GV4945@poupinou.org> <20060925153914.GB1364@dbz.icequake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060925153914.GB1364@dbz.icequake.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: cpufreq-bounces@lists.linux.org.uk Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org@lists.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ryan Underwood Cc: Cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, Bruno Ducrot On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:39:14AM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: > Interesting that if it were SMI throttling, they would refer to it as > "stop clock". I wonder if anyone can tell us whether STPCLK stops TSC > or not. As far as I know, the TSC is usually stopped when triggering STPCLK on an "older" CPU. Does the battery run-time increase when you use your driver? Then it's doing _something_ , even if we do not know what it does exactly :) Dominik