Re: HELP: cpufreq on HT and/or SMP systems

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 06:16:47 EST

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Hi!

> > > AFAIK no SMP systems have voltage/frequency scaling (SpeedStep/PowerNow).
> > > I've heard that ACPI P-states works on SMP, but if it's not doing
> > > voltage/frequency scaling then I don't know what it's doing.
> >
> > I've got an ABit VP6 (VIA686, dual P3), and the processors speed and
> > voltage can be set in the BIOS. Does it count ?
>
> I meant dynamic voltage/frequency scaling, so that doesn't count.

If his bios can change voltage/frequency, kernel can probably do the
same. So his hardware probably can be supported by cpufreq.
Pavel

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