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Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:01:04 -0400 From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo 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@...el.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. identifying & exporting the flags on earlier kernels should be harmless, but not really 'mustfix'. Dave [*] As in I've read about this more on the inquirer etc than I have on Intel docs so far. ;-) -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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