From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Cpufreq mailing list <cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
davej@codemonkey.ork.uk
Subject: Re: powernow-k8-acpi driver
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:27:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303222712.GA16874@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040303215435.GA467@elf.ucw.cz>
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:54:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Lots of machines have broken PST tables, so current in-kernel driver
> refuses to works on them. Vendors do get ACPI tables right because
> apparently Windows use them ;-). So this driver tends to work.
>
> Comments? Could we get this into mainline?
I really dislike the idea of having >1 driver for this.
Why can't we have a "use_acpi" module_param to switch to this ?
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-03 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-03 21:54 powernow-k8-acpi driver Pavel Machek
2004-03-03 22:27 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-03-03 22:35 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-03 22:48 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-03 22:54 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-03 23:36 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-04 0:07 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-04 9:38 ` Russell King
2004-03-05 19:18 ` Bruno Ducrot
2004-03-07 13:15 ` Colin Marquardt
2004-03-03 23:09 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-03 23:11 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-03 23:39 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-03 23:45 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-03 23:26 ` Pavel Machek
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2004-03-03 23:48 paul.devriendt
2004-03-04 12:35 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-03 23:57 paul.devriendt
2004-03-04 13:44 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-04 2:00 richard.brunner
2004-03-04 23:16 ` Pavel Machek
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