Re: [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu May 24 2007 - 17:38:56 EST


On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:28:06PM -0700, Venki Pallipadi wrote:

> > But actually reading the patch: it seems weird to detect the flag
> > in acpi-cpufreq and essentially change /proc/cpuinfo when a
> > module is loaded. Why not in the intel setup function? And why is it
> > not in the standard CPUID 1 features mask anyways?
>
> I can do it in intel setup function. But, the feature may not be activated
> unless the driver is loaded.

The same could be said about est, vmx, and probably some others ;-)

Dave

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