From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 23:08:38 +0200
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
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On Thursday 24 May 2007 23:01:04 Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:55:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > On Wed, 23 May 2007 15:46:37 -0700
>  > Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo. This feature
>  > > will be enabled automatically by current acpi-cpufreq driver and cpufreq.
>  > 
>  > So you're saying that the cpufreq code in Linus's tree aleady supports IDA?
>  > If so, this is a 2.6.22 patch, isn't it?
> 
> From my limited understanding[*], ida is the "We're single threaded,
> disable the 2nd core, and clock the first core faster" magic.
> It doesn't need code-changes, as its all done in hardware afaik.

P0 is somewhat visible to software, but it should be pretty transparent

> 
> identifying & exporting the flags on earlier kernels should be harmless,
> but not really 'mustfix'.

I think it's generally a good idea to push cpuinfo flags in earliest
as possible; just make sure we actually use the final name (so that we don't get
into a pni->sse3 mess again) 
 
-Andi
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