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Thomas Renninger 029e9f7366 cpupower: Do detect IDA (opportunistic processor performance) via cpuid 
IA32-Intel Devel guide Volume 3A - 14.3.2.1
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Opportunistic processor performance operation can be disabled by setting bit 38 of
IA32_MISC_ENABLES. This mechanism is intended for BIOS only. If
IA32_MISC_ENABLES[38] is set, CPUID.06H:EAX[1] will return 0.

Better detect things via cpuid, this cleans up the code a bit
and the MSR parts were not working correctly anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
CC: lenb@kernel.org
CC: linux@dominikbrodowski.net
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2011-07-29 19:37:27 +02:00
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bench cpupowerutils: Rename: libcpufreq->libcpupower 2011-07-29 18:35:40 +02:00
debug cpupowerutils - cpufrequtils extended with quite some features 2011-07-29 18:35:36 +02:00
lib cpupowerutils: increase MAX_LINE_LEN 2011-07-29 18:35:40 +02:00
man cpupowerutils - cpufrequtils extended with quite some features 2011-07-29 18:35:36 +02:00
po cpupowerutils - cpufrequtils extended with quite some features 2011-07-29 18:35:36 +02:00
utils cpupower: Do detect IDA (opportunistic processor performance) via cpuid 2011-07-29 19:37:27 +02:00
.gitignore cpupowerutils: Rename: libcpufreq->libcpupower 2011-07-29 18:35:40 +02:00
Makefile cpupower: Rename package from cpupowerutils to cpupower 2011-07-29 18:35:40 +02:00
README cpupowerutils - cpufrequtils extended with quite some features 2011-07-29 18:35:36 +02:00
ToDo cpupowerutils - cpufrequtils extended with quite some features 2011-07-29 18:35:36 +02:00

README 

The cpufrequtils package (homepage: 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/cpufreq/cpufrequtils.html ) 
consists of the following elements:

requirements
------------

On x86 pciutils is needed at runtime (-lpci).
For compilation pciutils-devel (pci/pci.h) and a gcc version
providing cpuid.h is needed.
For both it's not explicitly checked for (yet).


libcpufreq
----------

"libcpufreq" is a library which offers a unified access method for userspace
tools and programs to the cpufreq core and drivers in the Linux kernel. This
allows for code reduction in userspace tools, a clean implementation of
the interaction to the cpufreq core, and support for both the sysfs and proc
interfaces [depending on configuration, see below].


compilation and installation
----------------------------

make
su
make install

should suffice on most systems. It builds default libcpufreq,
cpufreq-set and cpufreq-info files and installs them in /usr/lib and
/usr/bin, respectively. If you want to set up the paths differently and/or
want to configure the package to your specific needs, you need to open
"Makefile" with an editor of your choice and edit the block marked
CONFIGURATION.


THANKS
------
Many thanks to Mattia Dongili who wrote the autotoolization and
libtoolization, the manpages and the italian language file for cpufrequtils;
to Dave Jones for his feedback and his dump_psb tool; to Bruno Ducrot for his
powernow-k8-decode and intel_gsic tools as well as the french language file;
and to various others commenting on the previous (pre-)releases of 
cpufrequtils.


        Dominik Brodowski