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* Selecting the ppc_md.power_save method at boot time
@ 2006-10-20 16:40 Arnd Bergmann
  2006-10-20 22:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  2006-10-20 23:22 ` Olof Johansson
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Arnd Bergmann @ 2006-10-20 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev, Anthony J Marsala

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 <><

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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
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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