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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: PowerOp Design and working patch
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:52:47 +0200
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Hi!

A: No.
Q: Should I top-post?

> If you're a device manufacturer, and you build, say 50 devices that all
> use the same hardware but, because they are optimized for different
> functional use cases, have different preferred operating points and
> DVFS policies, it's *highly* desirable to not have to maintain 50
> separate builds for those devices.  Putting configuration information
> in places that can be changed independently of compilation is very
> important to us.

You'll still need to maintain 50 different userlands, so I do not
think that issue is _so_ important.

Anyway, lets get in core first, than talk about userspace interface
for chanig operating points, ok?
							Pavel
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