Re: cpufreq: Intel(R) SpeedStep(TM) for this processor not (yet) available

Ducrot Bruno (ducrot@poupinou.org)
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:12:38 +0100


On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 04:04:10PM +0100, Marc Giger wrote:
> Hi Dominik, Hi Bruno!
>
> Thank you for the information!
>
> > Intel continues to withhold information on how to use SpeedStep on
> > 440BX/MX chipsets (and even removes documentation which had been > publicly available ontheir servers)
>
> I thought Intel is interessted in Linux and want to support it????
>
> I'm willing to help you with tests if you want, so that the 440BX chipset will be supported.
>

I don't know why Intel do not want to release informations on their
speedstep technology. I think that this is more likely a 'marketing'
issue, or something like that. I don't think that their techs
want to withhold the specs for a proper support on SpeedStep
under linux, or other free OS, also, and hope that one day
Intel will release proper docs. Well, we can dream...

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