Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jun 2008 02:21:58 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Enable speedstep for sonoma processors. |
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On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:42:18PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> This patch has been floating around for years. > So long, I've forgotten the original reason it wasn't accepted. > It had something to do with it working for some users, but not others, > and we can't detect the 'not working' case.
My recollection is that we had no way to work out which voltage table was appropriate for a given CPU, so there was a risk of us either over- or under-volting the chip. Doing it via ACPI is safe.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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