[acpi-jp 2870] ACPI throttling changes

[Nate Lawson]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:
> I'm working on a shared CPU frequency control driver.  One step is to
> remove some of the autonomy of the throttling portion of acpi_cpu.
> Please test this patch if you have a machine which supports throttling.
> With this patch, throttling can be changed by doing:
>
>    sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed=X
>
> where X is some number between 1 and hw.acpi.cpu.max_speed.  It is no
> longer driven by AC line transitions.  Run a CPU benchmark like this one
> to make sure the throttling transition still works with this patch.
>
>     dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=500 | md5
>
> This is part of a larger work.  Don't worry, it won't be committed until
> general CPU frequency control is done so no loss of functionality will be
> committed.

Haven't gotten any responses to this yet.  Would someone who has working
throttling support apply the patch and test that they can indeed change
throttling through the sysctl listed above?

Thanks,
Nate