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cpufreqd package

  1. Bug #422858
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 422858

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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

@Runar,

>Why is it that the kernel uses the BIOS here anyway? Determination of the CPU speed shouldn't depend on such
>a crappy architecture, at least from my perspective.

Unfortunately to pick up all the power management goodness, the information has to be defined somewhere - this is what ACPI is for. Either you disable ACPI and lose a lot of functionality, or you follow what ACPI defines to get all the power mangement goodness and unfortunately sometimes pick up bugs in the ACPI tables. You buy a PC, you get ACPI. Hewlett-Packard,
Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix Technologies and Toshiba for ACPI :-)