On 22 January 2014 11:56, Li, Zhuangzhi <zhuangzhi...@intel.com> wrote: > I don't think it's a real bug in bootloader, the bootloader can set CPUs to > different frequencies according to actually requirements(Power saving first > or Performance first), > the CPUs freq policy are initialized in kernel, if the kernel want to share > one CPU policy(using CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_ALL type), it should ensure all CPUs > frequencies aligned first, > don't depend on the bootloader CPUs Pre-states, then the kernel can have > better compatibility. > > If the kernel uses CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_ALL policy, the patch can ensure these: > 1. If all CPUs are in the same P-state, it does nothing when cpufreq > registering > 2. If the CPUs are in different P-states, all the other CPUs are aligned once > to current frequency of CPU0 according to the present policy.
I thought, as you are asking kernel to keep same freq on all of them, then same should be true for bootloaders. Otherwise it was okay. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
