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Information on patches for existing Thinkpad tools and drivers or to adopt others to work with Thinkpads.
 
Information on patches for existing Thinkpad tools and drivers or to adopt others to work with Thinkpads.
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==Kernel patches==
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====Dothan CPUs and speedstep====
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If you have a new Dothan CPU (Centrino with 2Megs of L2 cache) and kernel 2.6.8, then you will need to apply [http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8-rc3/2.6.8-rc3-mm1/broken-out/bk-cpufreq.patch this patch] and [http://gort.metaparadigm.com/cpufreq/cpufreq-speedstep-dothan-3.patch this one], too. Otherwise speedstep will not work on your Dothan CPU.

Revision as of 17:57, 26 September 2004

Information on patches for existing Thinkpad tools and drivers or to adopt others to work with Thinkpads.

Kernel patches

Dothan CPUs and speedstep

If you have a new Dothan CPU (Centrino with 2Megs of L2 cache) and kernel 2.6.8, then you will need to apply this patch and this one, too. Otherwise speedstep will not work on your Dothan CPU.