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author Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> 1122678900 -0700
committer Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 1125094164 -0700

[IA64] Add ACPI based P-state support

Patch to support P-state transitions on ia64. This driver is based on ACPI,
and uses the ACPI processor driver interface to find out the P-state support
information for the processor. This driver plugs into generic cpufreq
infrastructure.

Once this driver is loaded successfully, ondemand/userspace governor can be
used to change the CPU frequency dynamically based on load or on request from
userspace process.

Refer :
ACPI specification -
      http://www.acpi.info
P-state related PAL calls -
      http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/downloads/24869909.pdf

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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