[MPlayer-dev-eng] [POLICY] clarify conditions for functionality removal

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2006/2/10, Robert Swain <robert.swain at gmail.com>:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 13:24, Ivan Kalvachev (Ivan Kalvachev
> <ikalvachev at gmail.com>) wrote:
> > This cpu speed detector is also sensible to throttling (that is not
> > visible in /proc/cpu) and other interference that also disturb normal
> > instruction execution.
>
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+
> cpu MHz         : 1004.602
>
> I use throttling on my 2.2GHz A64 3700+ and this is visible in /proc/cpuinfo.
> Do I misunderstand what you mean here?

I guess you are meaning the `powernowd` that is using Cool&Quiet or
SpeedStep technolog to change CPU frequency and voltage at runtime.

I'm talking about /proc/acpi/processor/CPU1/throttling. At least on
athlon64 and MB i am now, it is not supported.