Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755543AbYLBQPm (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:15:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752920AbYLBQPb (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:15:31 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:36540 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751979AbYLBQPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:15:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:15:21 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Pavel Machek Cc: Cristiano Prisciandaro , Dave Jones , cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] cpufreq: eeepc 900 frequency scaling driver Message-ID: <20081202161520.GA18252@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1227454026.7262.59.camel@localhost> <20081123180409.GB7731@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081123180409.GB7731@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 525 Lines: 15 On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 07:04:09PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Is this really needed? Could we simply talk to the cpu directly, > without help of ACPI? No. The ACPI write ends up talking to the embedded controller and some io ports. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org -- 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/