linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] CPUFREQ: Mark e_powersaver driver as EXPERIMENTAL and DANGEROUS

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Date:	Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:08:46 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
To:	Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@...tech.com>
Cc:	"Michael S. Zick" <lkml@...ethan.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Duane Griffin <duaneg@...da.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] CPUFREQ: Mark e_powersaver driver as EXPERIMENTAL
	and DANGEROUS

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:29:36PM +0800, Harald Welte wrote:
> The e_powersaver driver for VIA's C7 CPU's needs to be marked as
> DANGEROUS as it configures the CPU to power states that are out
> of specification.
> 
> According to Centaur, all systems with C7 and Nano CPU's support
> the ACPI p-state method.  Thus, the acpi-cpufreq driver should
> be used instead.

Do we know if vendors are actually shipping with the appropriate BIOS 
tables? The number of people using e_powersaver seems to be suspiciously 
large, though perhaps that's just because the help text implied it was 
the right choice for C7.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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