On Monday 22 March 2010 22:31:52 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> We currently have two drivers that parse _PSS and then do trivial writes
> to MSRs based on the results - acpi-cpufreq and powernow-k8. This seems
> less than ideal. The following patch adds support for modern AMD cpus to
> acpi-cpufreq. If we decide that this is the way forwards, powernow-k8
> can then be deprecated and retained only for older systems.
>
> In principle, support for older chips that need fid and vid set
> separately could also be provided - but this adds rather a lot mroe
> hardware-specific complexity for the sake of old hardware, so it doesn't
> seem worth it. This is also missing a couple of sanity checks that
> powernow-k8 performs, which could be added easily enough if people like
> this.
I'd also love to see this happen.
This probably should stay in linux-next for quite some time.
I can help testing if others agree that this can/should be done.
Thomas
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