Re: So, what's the status on the recent patches here?

Pavel Machek
2006-08-28T17:39:57Z

On Mon 2006-08-28 09:40:38, Mark Gross wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 03:46:53PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Sat 2006-08-26 17:30:40, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> > > On 8/26/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > Because 8388608 policies is clearly not reasonable, powerop can not
> > help here, and something better should be developed... like power
> > domains someone proposed here.
> >
> > (Or to say it in another words, powerop forces one big power domain,
> > which is bad model for notebook-style machine).
>
> I doubt notebook-style machines will ever us power op in any
> significant way. HPC and embedded will be the first users.

I agree here... power op look useless for notebooks. But I doubt power
op authors would agree...

> Power domains will likely build on top power op.
>
> Power domains adds complexities themselves. Dealing with
> dependencies and constraints between domains will be a challenge.

Once we have power domains in/solved... do we still need power op? I
thought power op could be useful for solving constrains _inside_ one
domain, but...
Pavel
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