On 2/13/20 12:59 PM, Ionela Voinescu wrote: >> What about intel_pstate / turbo stuff? IIRC one of Giovanni's issues was that >> turbo freq is not always reported as the max freq. Dunno if we can do >> anything about it; at the very least maybe document the caveat? >> > > Okay, I can add details in the description in regards to potential > reasons to overwrite this function. But basically this is one of the > reasons for making this a weak function. The best information we can > generically get for maximum hardware frequency is cpuinfo.max_freq. > But if platforms have the possibility to obtain this differently from > either hardware or firmware they can overwrite this. > Right, that would be handled by a different implementation of that function, so this wasn't too relevant of a comment. Sorry!
