> > Having said that, I am still not convinced that the driver should be in the > > kernel > > to start with. Browsing through Intel's datasheets, the registers are > > supported > > in E5-2600 v1, v2, and v3. However, in v3 Intel added a note saying that > > the registers > > should not be accessed by the OS directly, but only through the bios. Given > > that, > > and if that is possible, it might make more sense to rely on ACPI. It would > > then > > be up to the board and/or BIOS vendor to decide if the information should > > be available > > to the OS or not. > > I think the plan is to add something to ACPI to tell us when we can > use these registers. Unfortunately I'm not privy to whatever the ACPI > committee is doing.
Coming from the embedded world and not knowing much about this, I tend to wait until the above issue is clear, meaning when and how this driver is safe to be used. I hope you don't mind. Keeping your code up to date and sharing it is much appreciated, though! As well as Guenter's comments. Thanks!
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