linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] cpupower: Allow control of boost feature on non-x86 based systems with boost support.

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Message-ID: <aDhJdTWzDihchywc@thinkpad2024>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 07:48:05 -0400
From: "John B. Wyatt IV" <jwyatt@...hat.com>
To: Shinji Nomoto <fj5851bi@...itsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] cpupower: Allow control of boost feature on non-x86
 based systems with boost support.

Hello Shinji, ty for your patch.

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 03:10:57PM +0900, Shinji Nomoto wrote:
> The cpufreq subsystem has a generic sysfs interface for controlling boost
> (/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost).
> The sysfs interface can be used to enable boost control from the cpupower
> command on non-x86 platforms as well. So, allow boost controlling on
> non-x86 system if boost sysfs file exists.

Did you test this on non-x86 systems? If so, would you please provide
details on those architectures and systems?

-- 
Sincerely,
John Wyatt
Software Engineer, Core Kernel
Red Hat