From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754328Ab1LVAOq (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:14:46 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:36882 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754052Ab1LVAOn (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:14:43 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="49577267" Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:14:41 -0800 From: Andi Kleen To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Dave Jones , Thomas Renninger , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrf.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] cpufreq: Add support for x86 cpuinfo auto loading v3 Message-ID: <20111222001441.GB10955@alboin.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <1324338394-4670-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1324338394-4670-8-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <201112211203.26153.trenn@suse.de> <20111221201227.GA9262@alboin.amr.corp.intel.com> <4EF23E41.40608@zytor.com> <20111221213009.GA2568@redhat.com> <20111222000142.GA10955@alboin.amr.corp.intel.com> <4EF27517.6010609@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EF27517.6010609@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > So this should be: > > 1. added to the scattered CPUID features list; > 2. artificially set in the AMD-specific initialization code for the > older CPUs. Not sure (2) is correct. As far as I understand it's actually different mechanisms, just implemented by the same driver. Keeping the list for old CPUs is not a big issue anyways. Agreed with (1) Anyways someone with the hardware should do it. Thomas? -Andi