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@@ -280,3 +280,25 @@ Why: Orphaned for ages. SMP bugs long unfixed. Few users left
280Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> 280Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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284What: ACPI hooks (X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI) in speedstep-centrino driver
285When: December 2006
286Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are
287 functionally very much similar. They talk to ACPI in same way. Only
288 difference between them is the way they do frequency transitions.
289 One uses MSRs and the other one uses IO ports. Functionaliy of
290 speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks is now merged into acpi-cpufreq.
291 That means one common driver will support all Intel Enhanced Speedstep
292 capable CPUs. That means less confusion over name of
293 speedstep-centrino driver (with that driver supposed to be used on
294 non-centrino platforms). That means less duplication of code and
295 less maintenance effort and no possibility of these two drivers
296 going out of sync.
297 Current users of speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks are requested to
298 switch over to acpi-cpufreq driver. speedstep-centrino will continue
299 to work using older non-ACPI static table based scheme even after this
300 date.
301
302Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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