cpupowerutils - cpufrequtils extended with quite some features

CPU power consumption vs performance tuning is no longer
limited to CPU frequency switching anymore: deep sleep states,
traditional dynamic frequency scaling and hidden turbo/boost
frequencies are tied close together and depend on each other.
The first two exist on different architectures like PPC, Itanium and
ARM, the latter (so far) only on X86. On X86 the APU (CPU+GPU) will
only run most efficiently if CPU and GPU has proper power management
in place.

Users and Developers want to have *one* tool to get an overview what
their system supports and to monitor and debug CPU power management
in detail. The tool should compile and work on as many architectures
as possible.

Once this tool stabilizes a bit, it is intended to replace the
Intel-specific tools in tools/power/x86

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>

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+.TH "cpufreq-info" "1" "0.1" "Mattia Dongili" ""
+.SH "NAME"
+.LP 
+cpufreq\-info \- Utility to retrieve cpufreq kernel information
+.SH "SYNTAX"
+.LP 
+cpufreq\-info [\fIoptions\fP]
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.LP 
+A small tool which prints out cpufreq information helpful to developers and interested users.
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+.LP 
+.TP  
+\fB\-e\fR \fB\-\-debug\fR
+Prints out debug information.
+.TP  
+\fB\-f\fR \fB\-\-freq\fR
+Get frequency the CPU currently runs at, according to the cpufreq core.
+.TP  
+\fB\-w\fR \fB\-\-hwfreq\fR
+Get frequency the CPU currently runs at, by reading it from hardware (only available to root).
+.TP  
+\fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-hwlimits\fR
+Determine the minimum and maximum CPU frequency allowed.
+.TP  
+\fB\-d\fR \fB\-\-driver\fR
+Determines the used cpufreq kernel driver.
+.TP  
+\fB\-p\fR \fB\-\-policy\fR
+Gets the currently used cpufreq policy.
+.TP  
+\fB\-g\fR \fB\-\-governors\fR
+Determines available cpufreq governors.
+.TP  
+\fB\-a\fR \fB\-\-related\-cpus\fR
+Determines which CPUs run at the same hardware frequency.
+.TP  
+\fB\-a\fR \fB\-\-affected\-cpus\fR
+Determines which CPUs need to have their frequency coordinated by software.
+.TP  
+\fB\-s\fR \fB\-\-stats\fR
+Shows cpufreq statistics if available.
+.TP  
+\fB\-y\fR \fB\-\-latency\fR
+Determines the maximum latency on CPU frequency changes.
+.TP  
+\fB\-o\fR \fB\-\-proc\fR
+Prints out information like provided by the /proc/cpufreq interface in 2.4. and early 2.6. kernels.
+.TP  
+\fB\-m\fR \fB\-\-human\fR
+human\-readable output for the \-f, \-w, \-s and \-y parameters.
+.TP  
+\fB\-h\fR \fB\-\-help\fR
+Prints out the help screen.
+.SH "REMARKS"
+.LP 
+By default only values of core zero are displayed. How to display settings of
+other cores is described in the cpupower(1) manpage in the \-\-cpu option section.
+.LP 
+You can't specify more than one of the output specific options \-o \-e \-a \-g \-p \-d \-l \-w \-f \-y.
+.LP 
+You also can't specify the \-o option combined with the \-c option.
+.SH "FILES"
+.nf 
+\fI/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/\fP  
+\fI/proc/cpufreq\fP (deprecated) 
+\fI/proc/sys/cpu/\fP (deprecated)
+.fi 
+.SH "AUTHORS"
+.nf
+Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> \- author 
+Mattia Dongili<malattia@gmail.com> \- first autolibtoolization
+.fi
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.LP 
+cpupower\-frequency\-set(1), cpupower(1)