1*7fe2f639SDominik BrodowskiThe cpufrequtils package (homepage: 2*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskihttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/cpufreq/cpufrequtils.html ) 3*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskiconsists of the following elements: 4*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 5*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskirequirements 6*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski------------ 7*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 8*7fe2f639SDominik BrodowskiOn x86 pciutils is needed at runtime (-lpci). 9*7fe2f639SDominik BrodowskiFor compilation pciutils-devel (pci/pci.h) and a gcc version 10*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskiproviding cpuid.h is needed. 11*7fe2f639SDominik BrodowskiFor both it's not explicitly checked for (yet). 12*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 13*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 14*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskilibcpufreq 15*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski---------- 16*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 17*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski"libcpufreq" is a library which offers a unified access method for userspace 18*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskitools and programs to the cpufreq core and drivers in the Linux kernel. This 19*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskiallows for code reduction in userspace tools, a clean implementation of 20*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskithe interaction to the cpufreq core, and support for both the sysfs and proc 21*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskiinterfaces [depending on configuration, see below]. 22*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 23*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 24*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskicompilation and installation 25*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski---------------------------- 26*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 27*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskimake 28*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskisu 29*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskimake install 30*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 31*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskishould suffice on most systems. It builds default libcpufreq, 32*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskicpufreq-set and cpufreq-info files and installs them in /usr/lib and 33*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski/usr/bin, respectively. If you want to set up the paths differently and/or 34*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskiwant to configure the package to your specific needs, you need to open 35*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski"Makefile" with an editor of your choice and edit the block marked 36*7fe2f639SDominik BrodowskiCONFIGURATION. 37*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 38*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 39*7fe2f639SDominik BrodowskiTHANKS 40*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski------ 41*7fe2f639SDominik BrodowskiMany thanks to Mattia Dongili who wrote the autotoolization and 42*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskilibtoolization, the manpages and the italian language file for cpufrequtils; 43*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskito Dave Jones for his feedback and his dump_psb tool; to Bruno Ducrot for his 44*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskipowernow-k8-decode and intel_gsic tools as well as the french language file; 45*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskiand to various others commenting on the previous (pre-)releases of 46*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowskicpufrequtils. 47*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 48*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski 49*7fe2f639SDominik Brodowski Dominik Brodowski 50