[PATCH v2 15/24] docs: cpu-freq: convert amd-powernow.txt to ReST
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-02-17 16:20:49
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cpu frequency scaling framework, documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
"Rafael J. Wysocki", Viresh Kumar, Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
- Add a SPDX header;
- Add a document title, based on the original contents of
cpu-freq/index.txt;
- some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Add it to cpu-freq/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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.../cpu-freq/{amd-powernow.txt => amd-powernow.rst} | 12 ++++++++++--
Documentation/cpu-freq/index.rst | 2 ++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/cpu-freq/{amd-powernow.txt => amd-powernow.rst} (89%)
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/amd-powernow.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/amd-powernow.rst
similarity index 89%
rename from Documentation/cpu-freq/amd-powernow.txt
rename to Documentation/cpu-freq/amd-powernow.rst
index 254da155fa47..4a53612b62a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/amd-powernow.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/amd-powernow.rst@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============================= +AMD PowerNow Driver Specifics +============================= + PowerNow! and Cool'n'Quiet are AMD names for frequency management capabilities in AMD processors. As the hardware
@@ -23,16 +29,18 @@ not supply these tables. 7th Generation: powernow-k7: Athlon, Duron, Geode. 8th Generation: powernow-k8: Athlon, Athlon 64, Opteron, Sempron. + Documentation on this functionality in 8th generation processors is available in the "BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide", publication -26094, in chapter 9, available for download from www.amd.com. +26094, in chapter 9, available for download from www.amd.com. BIOS supplied data, for powernow-k7 and for powernow-k8, may be from either the PSB table or from ACPI objects. The ACPI support is only available if the kernel config sets CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR. The powernow-k8 driver will attempt to use ACPI if so configured, and fall back to PST if that fails. + The powernow-k7 driver will try to use the PSB support first, and fall back to ACPI if the PSB support fails. A module parameter, -acpi_force, is provided to force ACPI support to be used instead +acpi_force, is provided to force ACPI support to be used instead of PSB support.
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/index.rst b/Documentation/cpu-freq/index.rst
index 1bff3dfddd23..6f7c2a024447 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/index.rst@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Author: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + amd-powernow + Mailing List ------------ There is a CPU frequency changing CVS commit and general list where
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