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For some specific platforms (E.g. AlderLake) the balance performance EPP is updated from the hard coded value in the driver. This acts as the default and balance_performance EPP. The purpose of this EPP update is to reach maximum 1 core turbo frequency (when possible) out of the box. Although we can achieve the objective by using hard coded value in the driver, there can be other EPP which can be better in terms of power. But that will be very subjective based on platform and use cases. This is not practical to have a per platform specific default hard coded in the driver. If a platform wants to specify default EPP, it can be set in the firmware. If this EPP is not the chipset default of 0x80 (balance_perf_epp unless driver changed it) and more performance oriented but not 0, the driver can use this as the default and balanced_perf EPP. In this case no driver update is required every time there is some new platform and default EPP. If the firmware didn't update the EPP from the chipset default then the hard coded value is used as per existing implementation. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.