Status of X86_P4_CLOCKMOD?

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 14:57:22 EST


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:20:04PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:10, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:44:38AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > >
> > > config X86_P4_CLOCKMOD
> > > depends on EMBEDDED
> >
> > This one is an x86_64 only issue, and yes, it's wrong.
>
> That's for P4, not X86_64... And since P4 clock modulation does not provide
> almost any energy savings it was "hidden" under embedded.

But the EMBEDDED dependency is only on x86_64:

arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig:
config X86_P4_CLOCKMOD
tristate "Intel Pentium 4 clock modulation"
select CPU_FREQ_TABLE
help

arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/Kconfig:
config X86_P4_CLOCKMOD
tristate "Intel Pentium 4 clock modulation"
depends on EMBEDDED
help

And if the option is mostly useless, what is it good for?

> Dmitry

cu
Adrian

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