** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  Azure requested cppc_cpufreq to be available by default (without need to
- install modules-extra) on linux-azure and linux-azure-nvidia kernels 6.8
- and newer kernels. Address this by moving it to linux-modules.
+ install modules-extra). Address this by moving it to linux-modules.
  
  Include cppc_cpufreq module in linux-modules package instead of linux-
  modules-extra so that cpufreq is enabled by default (without the need to
  install linux-modules-extra).
  
  The fix is fairly simple, add the cppc_cpufreq.ko modules to azure-
  nvidia.inclusion-list in linux-azure-nvidia package, and to
  azure.inclusion-list for the linux-azure package.
  
  Note that this has been fixed in linux-azure-nvidia as of linux-azure-
  nvidia - 6.8.0-1025.27. For linux-azure, the fix needs to be applied to
  Noble, Plucky, and Resolute. Questing can be skipped due to the commit
- at [1], which completely consolidates linux-modules and linux-modules-
- extra due to improvements to zst compression as outlined in LP: #2042831
- [2]. All the modules can be compressed smaller than the original size of
- the linux-modules set, so there's no longer a benefit to the separation.
- If the patch at [1] is applied to Resolute before the one for this LP
- bug is applied, this patch can be dropped for Resolute.
+ at [1], which consolidates linux-modules and linux-modules-extra due to
+ improvements to zst compression as outlined in LP: #2042831 [2]. These
+ improvements allow for the compression of both sets to be smaller than
+ the original compressed size of the linux-modules set, thereby, negating
+ the benefits of the separation. If the patch at [1] is applied to
+ Resolute before the one for this LP bug is applied, then this patch can
+ be dropped for Resolute. Otherwise this patch should be applied to
+ Resolute in the interim until to avoid a regression.
  
  [1] 
https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux-azure/+git/questing/commit/debian.azure/control.d?h=master-next&id=1f36467420212d3073f7ee78bf7cb16b5c340146
  [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2042831
  
  [Test Case]
  
  Currently cppc_cpufreq is not included in linux-modules package.
  
  root@flavio:/home/ubuntu# uname -rv
  6.8.0-1019-azure-nvidia #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 27 23:52:00 UTC 2025
  root@flavio:/home/ubuntu# lsmod  | grep cpufreq
  root@flavio:/home/ubuntu#
  root@flavio:/home/ubuntu# cat 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
  cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor: No such file or 
directory
  
  Preparing a test kernel with the fix and installing only the linux-image
  and linux-modules package, cppc_cpufreq is present.
  
  ubuntu@flavio:~$ uname -rv
  6.8.0-1020-azure-nvidia #21 SMP Mon Aug  4 16:37:34 UTC 2025
  
  root@flavio:/home/ubuntu# lsmod | grep cpufreq
  cppc_cpufreq          262144  0
  root@flavio:/home/ubuntu# cat 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
  ondemand
  
  [Where problems could occur]
  
  The fix just adds a module in linux-modules package. Not any severe
  regressions expected. However, those who expected to find this module in
  modules-extra will not find there anymore.
  
  [Other]
  
- The fix is needed for linux-azure-nvidia, for Noble, 6.8.
+ The fix is needed for linux-azure-nvidia, for Noble, 6.8, and linux-azure for 
6.8 and newer kernels
  SF#413581

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