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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Enable speedstep for sonoma processors.
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.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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