Re: ICTC control (was: tiBook CPU speed)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

>I have most of the code for this ready; but it was for 2.2 kernels
>(nothing fancy; just a copy of the l2cr bit :-).
>
>I've looked at how one can integrate it into 2.4. We'd need a sysctl
>number in kernel/sysctl.[c,h], and a function handling the gory details.
>
>We could move the l2cr sysctl out of ppc_htab.c together with ICTC
>control into a separate ppc_sysctl.c file.
>
>What remains is to decide whether ICTC gets a separate feature bit in
>cputable.[c,h].

Well, we have /proc/sys/cpu coming along with the cpufreq stuff, that
would be a good place to put the additional settings.

I'll think about it.

BTW. I'm away for a couple of weeks, so don't be ashamed if I don't
reply to emails in time

Ben.