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From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 1/3] cpufreq: intel_pstate: configurable algorithm to get target pstate
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:25:28 +0100
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Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>, Philippe Longepe <philippe.longepe@linux.intel.com>, Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:59:50 PM Len Brown wrote:
> > Does this means Avaton will fall back to acpi-cpufreq?
> > This may need some fiddling with our certifcation tool which expects
> > cpupfreq to work at least a bit.
> 
> How do your certification tool handle with a system that has NO pstates?
> 
> We have low power  products that run at only 1 frequency.
> We also have several large customers that like to implement
> P-states in their out-of-band firmware and hide them
> completely from the OS.

The tests had been adopted to intel_pstate, if needed they have to be
adjusted again..
But it is nice to know in advance when such a bug drops in.

      Thomas