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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:43:00 +0100
From: Padraig Brady <padraig.brady@corvil.com>
Organization: Corvil Networks
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To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
CC: torvalds@transmeta.com, hpa@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5.35] CPU frequency and voltage scaling (0/5)
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Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Hi Linus, hpa, lkml,
> 
> The following patches add CPU frequency and volatage scaling
> support (Intel SpeedStep, AMD PowerNow, etc.) to kernel 2.5.35.
> 
> As was discussed last time, the cpufreq patches have been reworked to use a
> policy-based approach now. A cpufreq policy consists of four values:
> cpu	-	the affected CPU nr., or CPUFREQ_ALL_CPUS for all cpus
> min	-	minimum frequency in kHz
> max	-	maximum frequency in kHz
> policy	-	CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE or CPUFREQ_POLICY_POWERSAVE
> 

This is much better, but I preferred Dave Jones' suggestion of
supporting stackable policies as I can see no end to them:
max_cpu_temp, temp_hysteresis, favor_fast_{fsb,multiplier}, ...

P?draig.

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