| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | CPU frequency and voltage scaling code in the Linux(TM) kernel |
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| 3 | |
| 4 | L i n u x C P U F r e q |
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| 8 | |
| 9 | Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> |
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| 13 | Clock scaling allows you to change the clock speed of the CPUs on the |
| 14 | fly. This is a nice method to save battery power, because the lower |
| 15 | the clock speed, the less power the CPU consumes. |
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| 18 | |
| 19 | Documents in this directory: |
| 20 | ---------------------------- |
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
| Viresh Kumar | 7de962c | 2017-01-06 11:08:05 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | amd-powernow.txt - AMD powernow driver specific file. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | boost.txt - Frequency boosting support. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | core.txt - General description of the CPUFreq core and |
| 27 | of CPUFreq notifiers. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | cpu-drivers.txt - How to implement a new cpufreq processor driver. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | cpufreq-nforce2.txt - nVidia nForce2 platform specific file. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | cpufreq-stats.txt - General description of sysfs cpufreq stats. |
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | |
| 35 | governors.txt - What are cpufreq governors and how to |
| 36 | implement them? |
| 37 | |
| 38 | index.txt - File index, Mailing list and Links (this document) |
| 39 | |
| Viresh Kumar | 7de962c | 2017-01-06 11:08:05 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | intel-pstate.txt - Intel pstate cpufreq driver specific file. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | pcc-cpufreq.txt - PCC cpufreq driver specific file. |
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| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | user-guide.txt - User Guide to CPUFreq |
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| 46 | |
| 47 | Mailing List |
| 48 | ------------ |
| 49 | There is a CPU frequency changing CVS commit and general list where |
| 50 | you can report bugs, problems or submit patches. To post a message, |
| Viresh Kumar | 7de962c | 2017-01-06 11:08:05 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | send an email to linux-pm@vger.kernel.org. |
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | |
| 53 | Links |
| 54 | ----- |
| 55 | the FTP archives: |
| 56 | * ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/cpufreq/ |
| 57 | |
| 58 | how to access the CVS repository: |
| 59 | * http://cvs.arm.linux.org.uk/ |
| 60 | |
| 61 | the CPUFreq Mailing list: |
| Viresh Kumar | 7de962c | 2017-01-06 11:08:05 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | * http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-pm |
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | |
| 64 | Clock and voltage scaling for the SA-1100: |
| Erik Mouw | 4c41251 | 2006-04-03 14:21:00 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | * http://www.lartmaker.nl/projects/scaling |