Re: [ACPI-sppt] <not supported> for /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance

Ducrot Bruno <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.acpi.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:58:37PM +1000, Tomasz Ciolek wrote:
> Both Intel and AMD use a set of command similar to Longrun that
> Transmate Crusoe uses.

No.  They all use different technology.

> As far as I know you need to enable those
> extensions in the kernel to be able to scale yuor CPU frequency ands
> such like. 

Depend of the cpu.

> 
> While the ACPI patches might report things correctly, I doubt that any
> of the frequency/performance scaling in fact works under 2.4.xx. I could
> be wrong tho...
> 

ACPI support only one kind of technology.  For (some) PIII-M and P4-M,
this may be OK.  I doubt Athlon (PowerNow) will work, and I doubt
Transmeta (LongRun) will work either.  You need for them cpufreq.

Cheers,

-- 
Ducrot Bruno

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--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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