From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: Dynamic frequency governor Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:31:22 +0100 Sender: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20031021203122.GC871@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Moore, Robert" Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:08:17AM -0700, Moore, Robert wrote: > Can you be more specific about who has patents on what? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,298,448.WKU.&OS=PN/6,298,448&RS=PN/6,298,448 Is a good place to start. Skimming through the references there brings up further patents by just about everyone under the sun, including Intel. It looks a little murky in my not-professional-legal-person POV. If Intel are looking at funding this work, it would be fantastic to have their legal folks clear things up to be sure that this is safe ground. Dave -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk