Re: [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:55:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > On Wed, 23 May 2007 15:46:37 -0700
 > Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > 
 > > Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo. This feature
 > > will be enabled automatically by current acpi-cpufreq driver and cpufreq.
 > 
 > So you're saying that the cpufreq code in Linus's tree aleady supports IDA?
 > If so, this is a 2.6.22 patch, isn't it?

>From my limited understanding[*], ida is the "We're single threaded,
disable the 2nd core, and clock the first core faster" magic.
It doesn't need code-changes, as its all done in hardware afaik.

identifying & exporting the flags on earlier kernels should be harmless,
but not really 'mustfix'.

	Dave

[*] As in I've read about this more on the inquirer etc than
I have on Intel docs so far.  ;-)

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