Re: PM branch updated

[Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>]

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.

Hey, sounds like a perfect opportunity for you to update the wiki. ;)

Kevin