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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 22 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt index 29b3f9f..ce0666e 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Contents: 1. General Information ======================= -The CPUFreq core code is located in linux/kernel/cpufreq.c. This +The CPUFreq core code is located in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c. This cpufreq code offers a standardized interface for the CPUFreq architecture drivers (those pieces of code that do actual frequency transitions), as well as to "notifiers". These are device diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 031029e..64ce44d 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -259,3 +259,25 @@ Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old Who: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> --------------------------- + +What: ACPI hooks (X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI) in speedstep-centrino driver +When: December 2006 +Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are + functionally very much similar. They talk to ACPI in same way. Only + difference between them is the way they do frequency transitions. + One uses MSRs and the other one uses IO ports. Functionaliy of + speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks is now merged into acpi-cpufreq. + That means one common driver will support all Intel Enhanced Speedstep + capable CPUs. That means less confusion over name of + speedstep-centrino driver (with that driver supposed to be used on + non-centrino platforms). That means less duplication of code and + less maintenance effort and no possibility of these two drivers + going out of sync. + Current users of speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks are requested to + switch over to acpi-cpufreq driver. speedstep-centrino will continue + to work using older non-ACPI static table based scheme even after this + date. + +Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> + +--------------------------- |
