From 83d0515bbb10c7a3e52eee697d1032e447291eda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Venkatesh Pallipadi Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:34:28 -0700 Subject: [CPUFREQ][4/8] acpi-cpufreq: Mark speedstep-centrino ACPI as deprecated Mark ACPI hooks in speedstep-centrino as deprecated. Change the order in which speedstep-centrino and acpi-cpufreq (when both are in kernel) will be added. First driver to be tried is now acpi-cpufreq, followed by speedstep-centrino. Add a note in feature-removal-schedule to mark this deprecation. Signed-off-by: Denis Sadykov Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy Signed-off-by: Dave Jones --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 24f3c63b3017..7ebca0775ec1 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -280,3 +280,25 @@ Why: Orphaned for ages. SMP bugs long unfixed. Few users left Who: Jeff Garzik --------------------------- + +What: ACPI hooks (X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI) in speedstep-centrino driver +When: December 2006 +Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are + functionally very much similar. They talk to ACPI in same way. Only + difference between them is the way they do frequency transitions. + One uses MSRs and the other one uses IO ports. Functionaliy of + speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks is now merged into acpi-cpufreq. + That means one common driver will support all Intel Enhanced Speedstep + capable CPUs. That means less confusion over name of + speedstep-centrino driver (with that driver supposed to be used on + non-centrino platforms). That means less duplication of code and + less maintenance effort and no possibility of these two drivers + going out of sync. + Current users of speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks are requested to + switch over to acpi-cpufreq driver. speedstep-centrino will continue + to work using older non-ACPI static table based scheme even after this + date. + +Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi + +--------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.1