Re: community PM requirements/issues and PowerOP [Was: Re: So, what's the status on the recent patches here?]

Scott E. Preece
2006-09-15T03:00:39Z

| From pavel@ucw.cz Thu Sep 14 08:03:52 2006
| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:03:11 +0200
| From: Pavel Machek<pavel@ucw.cz>
| Cc: Matthew Locke<matthew.a.locke@comcast.net>,
| User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126
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|
| > Pavel,
|
| > > > operating points it is possible to implement the "cpufreq frequency
| > > > selection logic" in user space and having such functionality in the kernel
| > > > just violates the main rule of having everything possible outside of the
| > > > kernel.
| > >
| > > You got the rules wrong. "Keep the code out of kernel" is important
| > > rule, but probably not the main one.
| >
| > from aside, it looks like you're choosing 'rules' and assign then
| > 'priorities' in a too arbitrary way which is by a strange accident
| > fits your point of view best of all.
| > May I remind you that Linux world is not only laptops and Sharp Zaurus? ;)
|
| Actually, laptops and zauruses seem to be the only "interesting"
| machines from pm perspective. Then there are Motorola cellphones, but
| Motorola tried hard not to enable users changing kernel... so they are
| irrelevant.
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It would be interesting to see a breakdown by numbers as to where most
copies of Linux are. If embedded devices aren't the leader now, they
will be soon.

I do not speak for Motorola, so I won't respond to the dig...

scott
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