From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262082AbVGFT2X (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:28:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262025AbVGFT2X (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:28:23 -0400 Received: from isilmar.linta.de ([213.239.214.66]:55225 "EHLO linta.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262287AbVGFOG7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:06:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:06:53 +0200 From: Dominik Brodowski To: st3@riseup.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: speedstep-centrino on dothan Message-ID: <20050706140653.GA6415@isilmar.linta.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dominik Brodowski , st3@riseup.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050706112202.33d63d4d@horst.morte.male> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050706112202.33d63d4d@horst.morte.male> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:22:02AM +0200, st3@riseup.net wrote: > Currently, the speedstep-centrino support has built-in frequency/voltage > pairs only for Banias CPUs. For Dothan CPUs, these tables are read from > BIOS ACPI. > > But ACPI encoding may not be available or not reliable, so why shouldn't we > provide built-in tables for Dothan CPUs, too? Intel has released this > datasheet: > > http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/302189.htm > > with frequency/voltage pairs for every version of Dothan CPUs. However, it is not known which one of VID#A, VID#B, VID#C or VID#D is to be used on a specific system. Dominik