Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300

Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-11T11:38:28Z

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:22:44AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:44:50 -0700
> "S K" <nospamnoham@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > But it is very strange that cpufreq scaling can work on Windows XP.
> > > Will you please try the P4 clock cpufreq driver and see whether the
> > > scaling can work ? In fact P4 clock cpufreq driver is already
> > > replaced by acpi_cpufreq driver for the latest cpu.
> > > Anyway please try p4 clock cpufreq driver.
> >
> > What is the name of the driver? I'm not able to find any such driver
> > in Fedora 9 installed modules. There is only acpi-cpufreq and
> > powernow-k8.
> >
>
> yeah don't bother with p4-clockmod, it's not something that saves you
> energy... it only gives you a fake feeling that you would.

Why it is still in tree?

It's likely that you'll waste more time explaining everybody to not use
p4-clockmod than send a patch.