2012-08-05 21:14:25

by Rafael J. Wysocki

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] acpi-cpufreq: Move modern AMD cpufreq support to acpi-cpufreq

On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The programming model for cpufreq on current AMD CPUs is almost identical
> to the one used on Intel and VIA hardware. This patchset merges support
> into acpi-cpufreq and removes it from powernow-k8.
>
> This patchset is heavily based on Matthew Garrett's V4 from last July.
> The boosting part has been mostly reworked and documentation for it
> has been added. Also there was a need for (yet another) BIOS quirk
> on AMD desktop boards.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <[email protected]>

Peter, any objection to this series?

Rafael


2012-08-05 23:39:37

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] acpi-cpufreq: Move modern AMD cpufreq support to acpi-cpufreq

On 08/05/2012 02:20 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> The programming model for cpufreq on current AMD CPUs is almost identical
>> to the one used on Intel and VIA hardware. This patchset merges support
>> into acpi-cpufreq and removes it from powernow-k8.
>>
>> This patchset is heavily based on Matthew Garrett's V4 from last July.
>> The boosting part has been mostly reworked and documentation for it
>> has been added. Also there was a need for (yet another) BIOS quirk
>> on AMD desktop boards.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <[email protected]>
>
> Peter, any objection to this series?
>

No. It might be good for Borislav & Co to look it over, though, if they
haven't already.

-hpa


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2012-08-06 08:20:15

by Borislav Petkov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] acpi-cpufreq: Move modern AMD cpufreq support to acpi-cpufreq

On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 04:39:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/05/2012 02:20 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Andre Przywara wrote:
> >>The programming model for cpufreq on current AMD CPUs is almost identical
> >>to the one used on Intel and VIA hardware. This patchset merges support
> >>into acpi-cpufreq and removes it from powernow-k8.
> >>
> >>This patchset is heavily based on Matthew Garrett's V4 from last July.
> >>The boosting part has been mostly reworked and documentation for it
> >>has been added. Also there was a need for (yet another) BIOS quirk
> >>on AMD desktop boards.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <[email protected]>
> >
> >Peter, any objection to this series?
> >
> No. It might be good for Borislav & Co to look it over, though, if
> they haven't already.

Yep, already done so.

Thanks.

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