[ltp] Missing /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed

Daniel Kraus linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:11:40 +0100


Hi!

Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:27:26 +0100
> Daniel Kraus <d@niel-kraus.de> wrote:
> > what's your scaling governor?
> > scaling_setspeed is only available if your current scaling_governor is
> > set to userspace.
> Doh! I didn't know there was a userspace governor for the centrino
> driver. Is it new or did I dream the whole story about centrino using
> only two freqs?

Maybe you dreamed it or somebody told you crap :p
The Pentium M (which is part of centrino) can switch between more than
two frequencies and voltages.
Actually, that's imho the biggest advantage of the _enhanced_ SpeedStep
technology.

Have a look in the Intel Pentium M datasheed (25261202.pdf) for further
information.

Cheers,
	Daniel