FSB scaling for ASUS EeePC 1000H

[Francesco Lattanzio <franz.lattanzio@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following patch (against the current "linux-acpi-2.6" source tree) 
adds the capability of the ASUS EeePC 1000H (and maybe other models as 
well) to scale the FSB frequency and core voltage. Do not confuse this 
with cpufreq (SpeedStep and other similar mechanisms): cpufreq changes 
the internal CPU clock multiplier (and eventually the core voltage too) 
leaving the FSB frequency untouched.

A new file, "cpuclk_cfg", is added under "/sys/devices/platform/eeepc" 
through which is possible to select one of the available predefined CPU 
clock configuration (FSB frequency and core voltage).

Reading from cpuclk_cfg returns two numbers: the first is the number of 
available "CPU clock configurations", the second is a non-negative 
number less than the first representing the current configuration. If 
the function is not supported (through ACPI) the string "<unsupported>" 
is returned instead.

Writing a number to cpuclk_cfg allows to change the current CPU clock 
configuration.

On the Eee PC 1000H there are three available clock configuration:

       0 -> Super Performance Mode
       1 -> High Performance Mode
       2 -> Power Saving Mode

The selected configuration is saved into the NVRAM and restored after a 
reboot. This fact allowed me to use use /proc/cpuinfo to measure the CPU 
clock (while keeping SpeedStep disabled, i.e. at its maximum multiplier 
value):

       0 -> cpu MHz: 1709.760 / bogomips: 3420.00
       1 -> cpu MHz: 1595.736 / bogomips: 3192.45
       2 -> cpu MHz: 1254.026 / bogomips: 2509.55

The attached file is a dump of the DSDT taken from my EeePC 1000H I used 
as a reference to write the patch.
Here is the patch:

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c 
b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c
index 786ed86..d079d51 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c
@@ -382,10 +382,40 @@ EEEPC_CREATE_DEVICE_ATTR(camera, CM_ASL_CAMERA);
EEEPC_CREATE_DEVICE_ATTR(cardr, CM_ASL_CARDREADER);
EEEPC_CREATE_DEVICE_ATTR(disp, CM_ASL_DISPLAYSWITCH);

+
+static ssize_t show_ckfg(struct device *dev,
+                        struct device_attribute *attr,
+                        char *buf)
+{
+       int n_of_cfgs,current_cfg;
+       current_cfg=get_acpi(CM_ASL_CPUFV);
+       if (current_cfg<0)
+               return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", "<unsupported>");
+       n_of_cfgs=(current_cfg>>8)&0xff;
+       current_cfg&=0xff;
+       return sprintf(buf, "%d %d\n", n_of_cfgs, current_cfg);
+}
+
+static ssize_t store_ckfg(struct device *dev,
+                         struct device_attribute *attr,
+                         const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+       return store_sys_acpi(CM_ASL_CPUFV, buf, count);
+}
+
+static struct device_attribute dev_attr_ckfg = {
+       .attr = {
+               .name = "cpuclk_cfg",
+               .mode = 0644 },
+       .show   = show_ckfg,
+       .store  = store_ckfg
+};
+
static struct attribute *platform_attributes[] = {
       &dev_attr_camera.attr,
       &dev_attr_cardr.attr,
       &dev_attr_disp.attr,
+       &dev_attr_ckfg.attr,
       NULL
};


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Francesco Lattanzio <franz.lattanzio@xxxxxxxxx>

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