From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Dynanic On-The-Fly Operating points for PowerOP Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:44:34 +0000 Message-ID: <20060815194433.GF4032@ucw.cz> References: <44D8D40F.50005@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D8D40F.50005@mvista.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: David Singleton Cc: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi! > 2) The naming scheme for operating points has been unified to > provide a better interface to the PowerOp power manager daemon. > The names range from: > = > highest > high > medhigh > medium > medlow > low > lowest > = > PowerOp maps the supported processor frequencies onto this > namespace list. The set of centrino processors it supports have > supported sets of between four and six different operating points. > = > The PowerOP daemon, coming soon, can simply read the supported > set of operating points and make some simple rules based > decisions about when to transition to various operating points. > = > The goal of a unified name space is to provide a PowerOp manager > that runs out of the box, with very little setup by the user. Well, we already have perfectly working API for frequency management, why not use that? -- = Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.