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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001 CPU frequency and voltage scaling code in the Linux(TM) kernel
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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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19Documents in this directory:
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21core.txt - General description of the CPUFreq core and
22 of CPUFreq notifiers
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24cpu-drivers.txt - How to implement a new cpufreq processor driver
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26governors.txt - What are cpufreq governors and how to
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29index.txt - File index, Mailing list and Links (this document)
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31user-guide.txt - User Guide to CPUFreq
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36There is a CPU frequency changing CVS commit and general list where
37you can report bugs, problems or submit patches. To post a message,
Viresh Kumardec102a2014-04-22 10:42:05 +053038send an email to linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, to subscribe go to
39http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-pm and follow the
Németh Márton8d592252008-10-09 14:59:17 +020040instructions there.
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45* ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/cpufreq/
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47how to access the CVS repository:
48* http://cvs.arm.linux.org.uk/
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50the CPUFreq Mailing list:
Németh Márton8d592252008-10-09 14:59:17 +020051* http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#cpufreq
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53Clock and voltage scaling for the SA-1100:
Erik Mouw4c412512006-04-03 14:21:00 +020054* http://www.lartmaker.nl/projects/scaling