CPU frequency and voltage scaling code in the Linux(TM) kernel L i n u x C P U F r e q Dominik Brodowski Clock scaling allows you to change the clock speed of the CPUs on the fly. This is a nice method to save battery power, because the lower the clock speed, the less power the CPU consumes. Documents in this directory: ---------------------------- amd-powernow.txt - AMD powernow driver specific file. core.txt - General description of the CPUFreq core and of CPUFreq notifiers. cpu-drivers.txt - How to implement a new cpufreq processor driver. cpufreq-nforce2.txt - nVidia nForce2 platform specific file. cpufreq-stats.txt - General description of sysfs cpufreq stats. index.txt - File index, Mailing list and Links (this document) pcc-cpufreq.txt - PCC cpufreq driver specific file. Mailing List ------------ There is a CPU frequency changing CVS commit and general list where you can report bugs, problems or submit patches. To post a message, send an email to linux-pm@vger.kernel.org. Links ----- the FTP archives: * ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/cpufreq/ how to access the CVS repository: * http://cvs.arm.linux.org.uk/ the CPUFreq Mailing list: * http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-pm Clock and voltage scaling for the SA-1100: * http://www.lartmaker.nl/projects/scaling