Re: PM branch updated

[Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com>]

Hi Kevin,

On Friday 07 August 2009 19:11:20 Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com> writes:
> > On Thursday 06 August 2009 19:13:06 Kevin Hilman wrote:
> >> Kevin Hilman wrote:
> >> > I just pushed an updated PM branch which was rebased to current
> >> > omap/master (which is based on v2.6.31-rc5)
> >>
> >> Also, please check out
> >>
> >>    http://elinux.org/OMAP_Power_Management
> >>
> >> This page includes the stuff I normally put in the announcment of a new
> >> PM branch, but also tries to describe how to use the various features of
> >> the PM branch (which has been sorely missing for a while.)
> >
> > I think this page had been long-awaited. Thanks a lot for putting it
> > together.
> >
> > One question about it:
> >
> > What about the cpufreq interface for doing DVFS? Is it preferred way
> > to change OPPs or is it using /sys/power/vddx_opp? I think cpufreq
> > utils are more standard, easier to use and to understand.
>
> CPUfreq is much preferred.  The /sys/power/vdd* are just for manual
> testing and more fore PM developers than PM users.
Ok, thanks for the confirmation.

> Hey, sounds like a perfect opportunity for you to update the wiki. ;)
Exactly! http://elinux.org/OMAP_Power_Management has been updated with 
per-feature usage, CPUfreq kernel interface and debugging info for power 
users ;p

Can you check it?

>
> Kevin
Jean