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. -Len -- 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
