On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:55:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2007 15:46:37 -0700
> Venki Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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