Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo | Date | Thu, 24 May 2007 16:13:04 -0700 | From | "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <> |
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>-----Original Message----- >From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa@zytor.com] >Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:04 PM >To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh >Cc: Andi Kleen; Dave Jones; Andrew Morton; Brown, Len; linux-kernel >Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration >feature in /proc/cpuinfo > >Venki Pallipadi wrote: >> >> I can do it in intel setup function. But, the feature may >not be activated >> unless the driver is loaded. Going by the hardware capability point >> of view, we can do it in setup function. >> >> The feature appears in CPUID 6 (called Power Management >Leaf) instead of >> regular CPUID 1 features. >> > >This sounds like it should be a new CPUID word? >
Yes. But it only has 3 features defined right now. 2 in EAX and one in ECX. Should I use 2 new words for these bits or just use the software defined bits as in my earlier patch?
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