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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-08 22:31:16 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-08 22:31:16 +0400 |
commit | 3f17ea6dea8ba5668873afa54628a91aaa3fb1c0 (patch) | |
tree | afbeb2accd4c2199ddd705ae943995b143a0af02 /tools/power/cpupower/README | |
parent | 1860e379875dfe7271c649058aeddffe5afd9d0d (diff) | |
parent | 1a5700bc2d10cd379a795fd2bb377a190af5acd4 (diff) | |
download | linux-3f17ea6dea8ba5668873afa54628a91aaa3fb1c0.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master
Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master',
bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the
merge window.
* accumulated work in next: (6809 commits)
ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy
powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion
cris: update comments for generic idle conversion
idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations
nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT.
mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_*
MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated
MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging
fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr
fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr
mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated
mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions
mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup
mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free)
mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations
lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations
mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum
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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/power/cpupower/README')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/power/cpupower/README | 24 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/README b/tools/power/cpupower/README index fd9d4c0d6688..1c68f47663b2 100644 --- a/tools/power/cpupower/README +++ b/tools/power/cpupower/README @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@ -The cpufrequtils package (homepage: -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/cpufreq/cpufrequtils.html ) -consists of the following elements: +The cpupower package consists of the following elements: requirements ------------ @@ -11,10 +9,10 @@ providing cpuid.h is needed. For both it's not explicitly checked for (yet). -libcpufreq +libcpupower ---------- -"libcpufreq" is a library which offers a unified access method for userspace +"libcpupower" is a library which offers a unified access method for userspace tools and programs to the cpufreq core and drivers in the Linux kernel. This allows for code reduction in userspace tools, a clean implementation of the interaction to the cpufreq core, and support for both the sysfs and proc @@ -28,22 +26,22 @@ make su make install -should suffice on most systems. It builds default libcpufreq, -cpufreq-set and cpufreq-info files and installs them in /usr/lib and -/usr/bin, respectively. If you want to set up the paths differently and/or -want to configure the package to your specific needs, you need to open -"Makefile" with an editor of your choice and edit the block marked -CONFIGURATION. +should suffice on most systems. It builds libcpupower to put in +/usr/lib; cpupower, cpufreq-bench_plot.sh to put in /usr/bin; and +cpufreq-bench to put in /usr/sbin. If you want to set up the paths +differently and/or want to configure the package to your specific +needs, you need to open "Makefile" with an editor of your choice and +edit the block marked CONFIGURATION. THANKS ------ Many thanks to Mattia Dongili who wrote the autotoolization and -libtoolization, the manpages and the italian language file for cpufrequtils; +libtoolization, the manpages and the italian language file for cpupower; to Dave Jones for his feedback and his dump_psb tool; to Bruno Ducrot for his powernow-k8-decode and intel_gsic tools as well as the french language file; and to various others commenting on the previous (pre-)releases of -cpufrequtils. +cpupower. Dominik Brodowski |