Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules
From: Scott James Remnant
Date: Fri Feb 20 2009 - 12:29:56 EST
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 18:36 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:31:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > Nice fix! Where does this information come from? Distro module
> > ordering magic? It's rather non-trivial.
>
> Pretty much. p4-clockmod is never the preferred option because it does
> no voltage scaling. speedstep-centrino is now almost entirely
> functionally replaced with acpi-cpufreq. The powernow-k8 issue was a
> personal communication from davej.
>
In fact, we've noticed severe regressions with p4-clockmod over simply
having no scaling driver at all - and are not going to built it into our
kernels.
Scott
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