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Re: Intel Enanched Speedstep support.



smoppy%gmail.com@localhost ("Claudio M. Alessi") writes:

>> Setting clock speed is possible for most older but not recent Intel
>> chips with the est driver. The newer chips can only be controlled via
>> ACPI and we don't have a suitable driver.
>Just to know, what's the name of a such driver/support?

You want a driver to control ACPI C states and P states.
C states control the various sleep modes.
P states control speed and voltages, i.e. that's the conventional Speedstep.

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