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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Dynamic frequency governor
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +0100
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To: Ducrot Bruno <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Cc: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>, cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:25:03PM +0200, Ducrot Bruno wrote:

 > AFAIR, there is no patent if wide system policy which is what Bob want
 > to implement.  Only per-process (which is the most fun unfortunately) are
 > patented.  That need to be confirmed though (by Alan ?).

I was under the understanding that there was a patent on
"recalculate cpu frequency based on idle time" too.

		Dave

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