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rename from Documentation/cpu-freq/amd-powernow.txt
rename to 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.
@@ -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
- 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> --- .../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%)