On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:35:05PM -0500, Brown, Len wrote: > > >On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:05:23PM -0500, Brown, Len wrote: > >> Also, you may find that the current speedstep-centrino > >> is able to load on this system. Without hard-coded tables > >> for this processor family/model/stepping, it too would use > >> the ACPI PSS, but it would use native MSR access, which > >> is lower overhead than the IO port access used by acpi-cpufreq. > >> (in the future, acpi-cpufreq and speedstep-centrino should > >> be combined into a single driver) > > > >Do you mean you want to combine all possible drivers into only > >one? That is at that time of writing: > > > >acpi-cpufreq (IO version), speedstep-centrino, powernow-k7 > >and powernow-k8? > > > >Well, it might be possible that some cpufreq devellopers > >would be against this approach I'm afraid. > > acpi-cpufreq + speedstep-centrino = intel-enhanced-speedstep
I see. I thought you wanted to kill processor_perflib.c. I was indeed wrong. I would like to point that acpi-cpufreq could also be somewhat in "conflict" with speedstep-smi and speedstep-ich. That remind me that acpi-cpufreq is not only intel enhanced speedstep (a la Pentium Mobile, or Xeons, I means), but can work on some Pentium III or IV IIRC. > unless you can think of a better name. Both acpi-cpufreq > and speedstep-centrino turn out not to be good names, > since they don't describe either the function of the driver > or what hardware they run on. Especially for speedstep-centrino. I'm not sure for acpi-cpufreq though, but it's true this driver works only with Intel processors. > No, it wouldn't' make sense to combine the intel and amd drivers. Well, a BIOS writer could write a SMI handler (after all, they have the right to do what they want) in order to support acpi-cpufreq for an AMD processor, but I highly doubt this will ever happens. It's simply too late now. -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
