Re: Select voltage manually in cpufreq

Pavel Machek
2003-02-19T15:21:32Z

Hi!

> > I've added possibility to manualy force specified frequency and
> > voltage... That's fairly usefull for testing, and I believe this (or
> > something equivalent) is needed because every 2nd bios seems to be
> > b0rken.
>
> Why are all the power/cpu patches so complex? Can't we have a
> two-mode style operation, "slow-low-power" and "fast-high-power" or
> something? Would that not work with 99% or what people need and also
> be somewhat more uniform across platforms, CPUs, etc?

Another point here: This laptop machine allows scalling from 900MHz
back down to ~45MHz (actually 300MHz+throttling). If user said
"slow-low-power" he probably did not mean 45MHz, still it would be
nice to expose full range to the user.
Pavel

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