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CPUFREQ: Enable acpi-cpufreq driver for VIA/Centaur CPUs
authorHarald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>
Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:27:54 +0000 (18:27 +0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:22:44 +0000 (15:22 -0700)
commit0de51088e6a82bc8413d3ca9e28bbca2788b5b53
tree3003393dd3e60639b61200feefc13fc6bf5d28e0
parent2b83868723d090078ac0e2120e06a1cc94dbaef0
CPUFREQ: Enable acpi-cpufreq driver for VIA/Centaur CPUs

The VIA/Centaur C7, C7-M and Nano CPU's all support ACPI based cpu p-states
using a MSR interface.  The Linux driver just never made use of it, since in
addition to the check for the EST flag it also checked if the vendor is Intel.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>
[ Removed the vendor checks entirely  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c