Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add P state driver for Intel Core Processors

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 09:02:07AM -0800, dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
 > From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx>
 > 
 > This driver implements a scaling driver with an internal governor for
 > Intel Core processors.  The driver follows the same model as the
 > Transmeta scaling driver (longrun.c) and implements the setpolicy()
 > instead of target().  Scaling drivers that implement setpolicy() are
 > assmuned to implement internal governors by the cpufreq core. All the
 > logic for selecting the current P state is contained within the driver
 > no external governor is used by the cpufreq core.
 > 
 > At the moment only Intel SandyBridge processors are supported. As
 > testing on SandyBridge+ processors is completed support will be added
 > to the driver.

Won't you also need to patch drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c to not load
on the processors that you want this driver to run on ?

	Dave

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