Re: [PATCH 1/1] cpufreq: eeepc 900 frequency scaling driver

Cristiano Prisciandaro
2008-11-24T19:09:36Z

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 09:38 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> Cristiano Prisciandaro wrote:
>
> > The bios of the eeepc 900 exposes an acpi method that allows clocking
> > the cpu to 630/900 MHz. This driver allows controlling the frequency
> > switch through the cpufreq subsystem.
>
> I should perhaps add at this point that I have an alternative patch
> based on Cristiano's code, which adds this cpufreq driver to the
> existing eeepc-laptop module rather than creating a separate module for it.
>
> Personally I'm quite happy with either solution so I'll leave it to you
> to decide what is the best way to go, but my patch is available if you
> want it.

If this functionality has chances to be included into the kernel then I
have no problems if as a module or integrated in eeepc-laptop.

At the time of writing this module there was just the asus-acpi one:
I preferred not to mess with it.

Cristiano