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

Fabio Comolli
2009-03-17T08:59:31Z

Well, replying to myself: it doesn't even compile with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=n

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I see that this thread has resumed after three months of being idle.
> Is there a chance that either Cristiano's or Tom's version can be included?
>
> By the way, I currently run my eeepc 900 with cpufreq disabled.
> Looking at the patch, with Tom's mods to eeepc_laptop I could do the
> same, am I right? I see only an include for cpufreq.h and nothing
> else.
>
> Thanks,
> Fabio
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> On Mon 2009-03-16 00:24:18, Len Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Tue 2008-12-02 16:15:21, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>> > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 07:04:09PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > Is this really needed? Could we simply talk to the cpu directly,
>>> > > > without help of ACPI?
>>> > >
>>> > > No. The ACPI write ends up talking to the embedded controller and some
>>> > > io ports.
>>> >
>>> > Oops... I always knew that eee-s are broken by design (reporting
>>> > battery percent as mWh, etc...) but I did not realize how bad it
>>> > is. (ACPI has perfectly standard cpu frequency scaling interface, even
>>> > if it is not used too often these days....)
>>>
>>> Huh?
>>>
>>> What cpufreq driver is deployed more broadly than acpi-cpufreq?
>>> AFAIK, Linux uses it on nearly every ACPI compliant Intel-based
>>> system that has frequency scaling.
>>
>> Problem seems to be that eee uses custom ACPI methods
>> (switch_to_fast_clock(0/1)-like), not anything acpi-cpufreq could
>> drive... Broken by design :-(.
>>                                                                        Pavel
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