powernowd vs. ondemand governor

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 18:05 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:58:32PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> > The very fact it's done by grepping kernel supplied information means
> > that we're just working around kernel lazyness.  This could be
> > auto-loaded by the kernel, or it could be auto-loaded by udev if the
> > kernel supplied enough information.
> 
> Not really, no. Knowing whether acpi-cpufreq can bind requires 
> evaluating certain ACPI methods, and once you've evaluated those the 
> firmware will (on some systems) make assumptions about the level of OS 
> support.
> 
This is the key one though, if I'm reading things right?  There may be a
more specific module, and acpi-cpufreq is a fallback we should try last?

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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