Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754117AbYKXRIS (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:08:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753223AbYKXRID (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:08:03 -0500 Received: from gate.compton.nu ([217.169.19.106]:44603 "EHLO gosford.compton.nu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752935AbYKXRIB (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:08:01 -0500 Message-ID: <492ADF5E.2050709@compton.nu> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:07:42 +0000 From: Tom Hughes User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corentin Chary CC: Thomas Renninger , acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, Dave Jones , Cristiano Prisciandaro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Acpi4asus-user] [PATCH 1/1] cpufreq: eeepc 900 frequency scaling driver References: <1227454026.7262.59.camel@localhost> <492A7632.4040106@compton.nu> <200811241613.25557.trenn@suse.de> <200811241736.53067.trenn@suse.de> <71cd59b00811240841j69451aafje5cbb5204dbff2e5@mail.gmail.com> <492ADACC.6030807@compton.nu> <71cd59b00811240858p3b830c73qc2742023d2977054@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <71cd59b00811240858p3b830c73qc2742023d2977054@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "gosford.compton.nu", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Corentin Chary wrote: > Just modprobe p4-clockmod > - use cpufreq to go to the lower frequency > - run something cpu intensive > - go to the higher frequency (900mghz) > - you'll see the difference > > at least, it works with my eeepc 700, maybe 900 is different for that, > but it seems unlikely to me. [...] Content analysis details: (-2.6 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -0.0 NO_RELAYS Informational: message was not relayed via SMTP -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 25 Corentin Chary wrote: > Just modprobe p4-clockmod > - use cpufreq to go to the lower frequency > - run something cpu intensive > - go to the higher frequency (900mghz) > - you'll see the difference > > at least, it works with my eeepc 700, maybe 900 is different for that, > but it seems unlikely to me. Have a look at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/eeepc/ for an explanation of what p4-clockmod does and why it isn't really changing the speed of the processor (but does cause you to get less work done). tom -- Tom Hughes (tom@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/