Re: More than one battery

[Malte Thoma <thoma-iYtK5bfT9M8b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>]

Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:

>Yes, I think the auto-performance should be in there as well. I'm
>working on something else right now, but the deadline for that is next
>week. So following, that I'll clean it up and send you the diffs
>(should be next weekend).
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sounds nice :-)


Malte



>-- Daniel
>  <<You cant eat before a operashun. Not even cheese.>> -- Charlie Gordon
>
>On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Malte Thoma wrote:
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>]Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
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>]>I found the text below through some googling. The important thing is
>]>that ospmd is supposed to support acpi policies in the next version. I
>]>believe this means that you can hand a policy to ospmd and have it
>]>handle throttling for you, I doubt it would take cpu load into account.
>]>But I'm going to try to find who's working on that, the cpp files all
>]>just say "Intel" then find out if they are planning on putting a more
>]>complete policy support into the ospmd deamon, or could use a
>]>contribution. Throttling just based on thermal event might save your
>]>CPU, but won't save as much battery power as throttling the CPU when
>]>load is low. (I can easly half my battery draw by throttling and turning
>]>down the LCD, but I wouldn't do it without my hacked heatload
>]>unthrottling when the system load goes up.)
>]>
>]>
>]Please send my a diff from the hacked heatload.
>]If I understand you right, you have included an
>]
>]'auto-throttling-when-no-load'
>]
>]I think this is worth to be included in the offical release, don't you?
>]We should include 'auto-performance-when-no-load' as welll, what's your
>]opinion?
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>]
>]Greetings,
>]
>]Malte
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>]>Anyway, I'll keep you informed.
>]>
>]>-- Daniel
>]>
>]>  http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:pOZPEz5rV_8C:www.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads/CHANGES.txt+ospmd+cpu+throttling&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
>]>
>]>The processor driver (acpi_processor.c) now fully supports ACPI
>]>2.0-based processor performance control (e.g. Intel(R) SpeedStep(TM)
>]>technology) Note that older laptops that only have the Intel "applet"
>]>interface are not supported through this.  The 'limit' and 'performance'
>]>interface (/proc) are fully functional.  [Note that basic policy for
>]>controlling performance state transitions will be included in the next
>]>version of ospmd.] The idle handler was modified to more aggressively
>]>use C2, and PIIX4 errata handling underwent a
>]>complete overhaul (big thanks to Dominik Brodowski).
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