[Kde-hardware-devel] [PATCH] solid: processor

[Danny Kukawka]

Hi,

here some changes for the processor related code in Solid. 

1.) change return type of maxSpeed() from qulonglong to int since there is a 
bug in the HAL spec, it should be int and the only case where this property 
is currently set (in the freebsd code of HAL) it's also in. 

Note: Currently the property is not mandatory in HAL and the key get never set 
for the Linux backend. I work on a patch for HAL to fix this if possible.

2.) replace canThrottle() with canChangeFrequency(): Throtttling is not useful 
and should never used. It reduce only the CPU performance and don't reduce 
power consumption - in fact it cost more power than without throttle the CPU. 

What really interesting is: can the processor change the CPU frequency 
(support the machine e.g. speedstep).

The function is only a dummy for now - we need a change in HAL to set a useful 
property to the processor device which indicates if CPU freq is supported. I 
work also on this.

Danny
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