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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:47:26 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, davej@suse.de, linux@brodo.de
Subject: Re: Select voltage manually in cpufreq
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:42:20PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> I've added possibility to manualy force specified frequency and
> voltage... That's fairly usefull for testing, and I believe this (or
> something equivalent) is needed because every 2nd bios seems to be
> b0rken.

Why are all the power/cpu patches so complex?  Can't we have a
two-mode style operation, "slow-low-power" and "fast-high-power" or
something?  Would that not work with 99% or what people need and also
be somewhat more uniform across platforms, CPUs, etc?


  --cw
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