[PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: Link acpi-cpufreq.o first

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Feb 18 13:31:55 UTC 2009


Scott James Remnant wrote:
> OriginalAuthor: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>
> 
> The link order of the CPU Frequency scaling drivers affects the order in
> which they will be tried.  In general, acpi-cpufreq is always the
> desired driver, so we want to link this first - and only use the others
> as a fallback.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott at canonical.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Makefile |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Makefile
> index 560f776..5808631 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Makefile
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +obj-$(CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ)		+= acpi-cpufreq.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6)		+= powernow-k6.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K7)		+= powernow-k7.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8)		+= powernow-k8.o
> @@ -10,7 +11,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_GX_SUSPMOD)		+= gx-suspmod.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_ICH)		+= speedstep-ich.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_LIB)		+= speedstep-lib.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_SMI)		+= speedstep-smi.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ)		+= acpi-cpufreq.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO)	+= speedstep-centrino.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_X86_P4_CLOCKMOD)		+= p4-clockmod.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_X86_CPUFREQ_NFORCE2)	+= cpufreq-nforce2.o

applied - I'd like to see this submitted upstream for discussion of
regression potential and actual boot performance gain.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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