From: Ducrot Bruno <ducrot@poupinou.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>, cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Dynamic frequency governor
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:25:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031020172503.GE13989@poupinou.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031020170010.GF21438@redhat.com>
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:00:10PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:33:04AM -0700, Moore, Robert wrote:
>
> > >From what I can tell, this has not been done yet; is this true?
>
> Correct. For the reason I outlined...
>
> > however the fact remains, whilst there are folks owning patents on
> > this, it'll *never* be acceptable for merging without an exception
> > grant from the patent holder.
>
> Here, and...
>
> > > There are several patents in this area (I think from Hitachi, I forget
> > > exactly) It has come up before on the list, so should be in the
> > > archives. Unless you can get a grant from the holder that it may be
> > > used in GPL code, this has zero chance of being merged to mainline.
>
> Here.
> Do I need to quote it a third time ?
>
> Dave
>
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 ?).
--
Ducrot Bruno
-- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
-- Don't know. Don't care.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-20 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-20 16:33 Dynamic frequency governor Moore, Robert
2003-10-20 17:00 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 17:12 ` Daniel Thor Kristjansson
2003-10-20 17:25 ` Ducrot Bruno [this message]
2003-10-20 17:32 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 17:35 ` Ducrot Bruno
2003-10-20 18:10 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 23:28 ` Sven Dowideit
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-20 17:08 Moore, Robert
2003-10-21 20:31 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-21 22:21 ` David Kar-Fai Tam
2003-10-21 23:19 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 15:31 Moore, Robert
2003-10-20 15:39 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-17 21:14 Moore, Robert
2003-10-18 5:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-10-18 5:58 ` Vivek Haldar
2003-10-19 21:34 ` Jeroen van der Vegt
2003-10-18 6:44 ` David Kar-Fai Tam
2003-12-22 21:41 ` David Kar-Fai Tam
2004-02-14 17:09 ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-19 13:24 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 15:40 ` Daniel Thor Kristjansson
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