2004-01-02 07:18:11

by Luming Yu

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Subject: RE: [ACPI] ACPI and framebuffer related problems with Linux 2.6.1-rc1

>However, there is a problem with ACPI:
/proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance,
>which was there in previous versions of the kernel and allowed me to
slow the
>CPU down in order to save power, disappeared in Linux 2.6.1-rc1. It's
simply
>not there anymore. Was it replaced?

It sounds like a regression. Would you file it on
http://bugzilla.kernel.org


2004-01-02 11:32:22

by Karol Kozimor

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Subject: Re: [ACPI] ACPI and framebuffer related problems with Linux 2.6.1-rc1

Thus wrote Yu, Luming:
> >However, there is a problem with ACPI:
> /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance,
> >which was there in previous versions of the kernel and allowed me to
> slow the
> >CPU down in order to save power, disappeared in Linux 2.6.1-rc1. It's
> simply
> >not there anymore. Was it replaced?
>
> It sounds like a regression. Would you file it on
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org

I guess he needs rather to compile the ACPI performance CPUFreq driver and
insmod acpi.ko, or something similar. That's a pretty non-obvious change
over 2.4.
Best regards,

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Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor
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