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....) Sorry for the noise. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
