Re: e_powersaver driver considered DANGEROUS (was Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support])

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > > Ah, but we are talking here of the *second* NetBook ever produced.
> > > If one is to believe the dmidecode output - it is using the VIA demo board
> > > BIOS. 
> > > 
> > > I bet the demo board BIOS is intended to demo the features of the product -
> > > not the correctness or completeness of the ACPI support.  ;)
> 
> So I've just been told the VIA reference BIOS has full support for the
> processor p-state support.  I'd therefore suppose every production BIOS
> contains that code, too.  The kernel should never use a native driver such as
> e_powersaver on any C7 or Nano system, but use the ACPI provided
> tables/methods, which are intel compatible.  A native driver would only be
> needed on really old C3 systems. 
> 
> The e_powersaver.c driver neither respects the maximum/minimum frequency
> constraints specified in the MSR's, nor does it take care of the inflection
> ratio, parallax and other advanced stuff that C7 and Nano are doing in this
> area.

Uhuh, what is inflection ratio/parallax?

I did play with cpufreq on intel/amd systems, and never heard about
those...

								Pavel

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