Comment 7 for bug 429036

I discovered this interesting article about Turbo Boost and operating system support.

http://computing-intensive.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-make-turbo-boost-work-under.html

It mainly says that, for an OS to support Turbo Boost:

   1. The said OS must support ACPI
   2. The BIOS in use must support ACPI
   3. EIST and Turbo Boost BIOS option must be turned on
   4. CState should be set
   5. The said OS must turn on its power management features, for both Pstates and Cstates
   6. The Pstate entries, P1 should be corresponding to the chip default frequency

Someone should check for these features in the linux kernel (mainly 4-6)

Windows 7 supports it, why not Ubuntu.