RE: CPU frequency shifting "problems"

Grover, Andrew
2001-09-28T22:47:55Z

> From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
> Remember you get an interrupt from the transition that you
> can steal from
> the ROM gunge, or is that another deep intel secret you can't
> comment on 8)
>
> Just why are intel so obsessed by secrets about something
> every other vendor
> does anyway ?

I agree and have said the very thing internally, but TPTB have determined
that the benefit of an open source driver is outweighed by the perceived
competitive advantage of keeping it a trade secret. :(

-- Andy