CPUs with variable speed clocks ?

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 13:24:18 EST 2006


  Aye, the Intel Core 2 Duo's have 'Advanced Intel Speedstep' capabilities.
The clock can be dynamically modified by multipliers, I believe up to 8
different speeds.  I'll give you more info as I investigate it, as the
kernel I built last night I enabled for it.

  Thomas

On 11/3/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Has anyone here encountered such a beast?
>
> I ran into a discussion on another mailing list, and that was the
> first I had heard about CPUs with variable speed clocks.  Does anyone
> know how you muck with these under Linux?  I would guess that there's
> some kernel parameter you can toggle to (en|dis)able this feature.
> Would there be a /proc thingy you can 'echo 1' into like some of the
> iptables features as well?
> --
> Seeya,
> Paul
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