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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Anthony J Marsala <marsala@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Selecting the ppc_md.power_save method at boot time
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:40:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610201840.14389.arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> (raw)

Anthony was asking me to add support for disabling the cbe_idle
function for cell at boot time, in order to make it easier to
use some debugging tools.

I already intend to move the cbe_idle implementation over to
a simpler power_save method, so these two changes could be
combined by making the power_save function selectable at
boot time.

I could imagine two ways to implement this:

1. Add a boot option to simply disable calling ppc_md->power_save
on all platforms. E.g. powersave=off.

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.

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

	Arnd <><

             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-20 16:40 Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-10-20 22:05 ` Selecting the ppc_md.power_save method at boot time Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-20 23:22 ` Olof Johansson
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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