Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270822AbTHOUxU (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:53:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270828AbTHOUxU (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:53:20 -0400 Received: from 64.221.211.204.ptr.us.xo.net ([64.221.211.204]:23444 "HELO mail.keyresearch.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270822AbTHOUxP (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:53:15 -0400 Subject: Re: Centrino support From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Jan Rychter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1060972810.29086.8.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1060980793.29086.21.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 15 Aug 2003 13:53:13 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1159 Lines: 31 On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 13:35, Jan Rychter wrote: > I keep dreaming about the day when I'll be able to have a modern laptop > with a stable Linux kernel. As for now, it has taken me (on one of my > laptops) about 1.5 years to get to a point where 2.4 works, most of my > hardware works, and software suspend (pretty much a requirement for > laptops) works. I'm not about to give that up easily, so I'm not that > eager to jump to 2.5/2.6. Can't say that's been my experience. I bought a new Thinkpad X31 the other day, and it's already running 2.6.0-test3. Suspend works, all's happy. > 1. Will cpufreq make it into the standard 2.4 kernels? Highly unlikely. > 3. Where does one get 2.4 cpufreq? There are snapshots available at www.linux.org.uk (hint: Google for "cpufreq"), or in -ac. See the cpufreq mailing list archives for a bunch of daemons that control this stuff in various semi-cooked ways.