On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Juan RP wrote:
> > IMHO it's better to have this until sysmon_cpu gets finished
>
> Yes, sure, I have no problem with that as a temporary hack.
>
> But how do this features operate independently? Are there cpus that both
> have TM and EST or is that impossible? If not, we could abstract the name
> and just use the same node everywhere. If both could coexist, how would
> that work? I have one cpu with TM and no EST, and another with TM2 and EST
> - so I am confused.

This driver only changes the CPU clock modulation and it's independent of
the processor frequency (est), so you can use both.

See 
http://www.digit-life.com/articles/pentium4athlonxpthermalmanagement/index.html

The section "Pentium 4 - diagnostics, treatment and self-treatment".

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