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@@ -280,3 +280,25 @@ Why: Orphaned for ages. SMP bugs long unfixed. Few users left
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Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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+What: ACPI hooks (X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI) in speedstep-centrino driver
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+When: December 2006
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+Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are
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+ functionally very much similar. They talk to ACPI in same way. Only
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+ difference between them is the way they do frequency transitions.
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+ One uses MSRs and the other one uses IO ports. Functionaliy of
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+ speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks is now merged into acpi-cpufreq.
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+ That means one common driver will support all Intel Enhanced Speedstep
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+ capable CPUs. That means less confusion over name of
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+ speedstep-centrino driver (with that driver supposed to be used on
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+ non-centrino platforms). That means less duplication of code and
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+ less maintenance effort and no possibility of these two drivers
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+ going out of sync.
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+ Current users of speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks are requested to
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+ switch over to acpi-cpufreq driver. speedstep-centrino will continue
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+ to work using older non-ACPI static table based scheme even after this
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+ date.
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+Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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