| 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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| 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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| 19 | Documents in this directory: |
| 20 | ---------------------------- |
| 21 | core.txt - General description of the CPUFreq core and |
| 22 | of CPUFreq notifiers |
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| 24 | cpu-drivers.txt - How to implement a new cpufreq processor driver |
| 25 | |
| 26 | governors.txt - What are cpufreq governors and how to |
| 27 | implement them? |
| 28 | |
| 29 | index.txt - File index, Mailing list and Links (this document) |
| 30 | |
| 31 | user-guide.txt - User Guide to CPUFreq |
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| 33 | |
| 34 | Mailing List |
| 35 | ------------ |
| 36 | There is a CPU frequency changing CVS commit and general list where |
| 37 | you can report bugs, problems or submit patches. To post a message, |
| 38 | send an email to cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, to subscribe go to |
| 39 | http://lists.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cpufreq. Previous post to the |
| 40 | mailing list are available to subscribers at |
| 41 | http://lists.linux.org.uk/mailman/private/cpufreq/. |
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| 43 | |
| 44 | Links |
| 45 | ----- |
| 46 | the FTP archives: |
| 47 | * ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/cpufreq/ |
| 48 | |
| 49 | how to access the CVS repository: |
| 50 | * http://cvs.arm.linux.org.uk/ |
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| 52 | the CPUFreq Mailing list: |
| 53 | * http://lists.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cpufreq |
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| 55 | Clock and voltage scaling for the SA-1100: |
| 56 | * http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/projects/scaling |