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Message-ID: <47BB20F0.8030506@fenrir.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:33:20 +0000
From: Brian Morrison <bdm@...rir.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel Core2Duo mobile - how does the VID get set?
Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
>> After a fair bit of Googling and reading around, I'm none the wiser
>> about exactly how Linux 2.6.x sets the processor VID (or for
>> that matter
>> how it decides the FID settings) when using the ondemand governor and
>> cpufreq stuff.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me a) whether this is obtained from the BIOS,
>> something
>> in the MSR of the processor or elsewhere and
>
> Yes. The freq and voltage supported comes from the platform BIOS. BIOS
> exports this in an ACPI table which is handled by acpi-cpufreq driver in
> Linux kernel.
>
OK, thanks for that.
>
>> b) whether there is an
>> interface in /proc or /sys where one can find out what is set
>> and modify it?
>
> There is no way of modifying and using new VIDs etc in Linux kernel
> (other than exporting your own DSDT and hacking the related code).
Is there a way of viewing the ACPI table contents relating to the VIDs
and FIDs?
--
Brian Morrison
bdm@...rir.org.uk
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