Re: PowerOP 2/3: Intel Centrino support

Bruno Ducrot
2005-08-10T12:58:48Z

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:01:33PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Minimal PowerOP support for Intel Enhanced Speedstep "Centrino"
> > notebooks. These systems run at an operating point comprised of a cpu
> > frequency and a core voltage. The voltage could be set from the values
> > recommended in the datasheets if left unspecified (-1) in the operating
> > point, as cpufreq does.
>
> Eh? I thought these are handled okay by cpufreq already? What is
> advantage of this over cpufreq?

ATM I'm wondering what are the pro for those patches wrt current cpufreq
infrastructure (especially cpufreq's notion of notifiers).

I still don't find a good one but I'm surely missing something obvious.

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Bruno Ducrot

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