Re: Dynanic On-The-Fly Operating points for PowerOP

Pavel Machek
2006-08-15T19:44:34Z

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?

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