Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:53:47 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300 |
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:38:48PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:22:44AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > yeah don't bother with p4-clockmod, it's not something that saves you > > energy... it only gives you a fake feeling that you would. > > Why it is still in tree? > > It's likely that you'll waste more time explaining everybody to not use > p4-clockmod than send a patch.
Because it's useful for thermal throttling on hardware that doesn't implement voltage scaling.
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