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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.

  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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