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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Anthony J Marsala <marsala@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Selecting the ppc_md.power_save method at boot time
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:22:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061020182203.7871d1b1@pb15> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610201840.14389.arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:40:13 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> 2. Make it possible to have multiple implementations, e.g.
> powersave=cbe, powersave=nap, powersave=cede, powersave=off,
> powersave=power4, with a per-platform default.

Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since there's no way to use the
power4 powersave on a cell system -- specifying it on the command line
won't do much good.

> Is anyone interested in the second solution? Otherwise I'd post
> a simple patch to just do powersave=off.

Gobal powersave=off sounds good, specific platforms could implement
others as needed.


-Olof

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-20 16:40 Selecting the ppc_md.power_save method at boot time Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-20 22:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-20 23:22 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2006-10-23  9:52   ` [PATCH] cell: use ppc_md->power_save instead of cbe_idle_loop Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-23 10:16     ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-23 11:50       ` Arnd Bergmann

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