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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Robert Love <rml@ximian.com>
Cc: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Laptops & CPU frequency
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:42:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040115204257.GG467@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074107842.1153.959.camel@localhost>

Hi!

> > I have an athlon-xp laptop (HP pavilion ze4500) with powernow that
> > definitely goes into low power mode when the plug is pulled.  The screen
> > goes dark, and everything slows down.
> 
> Dave did not mean that the other power management schemes cannot do the
> automatic reduction on loss of AC, just that there is no SMM/BIOS hacks
> to do it automatically.

People are designing machines where battery can't provide
enough ampers for cpu in high-power mode. If speedstep machines
have same problem, SMM is actually right thing to do.
				Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-15 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-11  2:56 Laptops & CPU frequency jlnance
2004-01-11  3:17 ` Robert Love
2004-01-11  4:12   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-11  6:16   ` Willy Tarreau
2004-01-11 10:27   ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-11 10:33     ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-12 16:58       ` Jerry Cooperstein
2004-01-12 21:19         ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-12 19:52       ` john stultz
2004-01-12 20:11         ` Disconnect
2004-01-12 23:19           ` john stultz
2004-01-12 21:28         ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-12 22:07           ` john stultz
2004-01-13  9:13             ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-11 17:06   ` Matthew Garrett
2004-01-11 17:13     ` Robert Love
2004-01-11 17:44       ` Matthew Garrett
2004-01-11 17:54         ` Robert Love
2004-01-14  4:59           ` Dave Jones
2004-01-14 19:11             ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-01-14 19:17               ` Robert Love
2004-01-14 19:23                 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-01-15 20:42                 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-01-15 21:18                   ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-01-15 22:21                   ` John Bradford
2004-01-15 22:48                     ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-19 17:44             ` Ducrot Bruno
2004-01-16 10:47         ` Pavel Machek

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