7.10 support of new AMD PowerNow! (family 0x11 and beyond)

[Tim Gardner]

Langsdorf, Mark wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> In late November, I submitted a few patches to this list
> for consideration in an Ubuntu 7.10 update release.  The
> purpose was to provide support for PowerNow! in AMD's
> forthcoming Family 0x11 processors.  There was a short
> patch submittted on 11/27 that addressed Family 0x11
> parts, and a much larger patch on 11/29 that handled all
> future AMD parts.
>
> There was never much discussion of them that I saw, and
> so I don't know which, if either, was adapted.  Linux
> PowerNow! support of family 0x11 parts is becoming 
> important to some of our OEMs, so I'm trying to determine
> what the Ubuntu kernel community did.  Would someone 
> please enlighten me?
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Mark Langsdorf
> Operating System Research Center
> AMD
>
>
>
>   
Mark - We have reviewed the November patch, but see some problems with
it. It appears to change the default behavior of the function, which we
are loath to do in a security update.

I also do not see this patch upstream in 2.6.24-rc8. Why not?

rtg

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at ubuntu.com