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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	davej@suse.de, linux@brodo.de
Subject: Re: Select voltage manually in cpufreq
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:08:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030218220858.GA15273@f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030218215819.GC21974@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:58:19PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Well, and does slow-low-power mean 300MHz, 1.4V as bios said, or
> 300MHz, 1.2V which is probably also safe?

I have no idea... that's the point... the user almost never knows what
*exact* magic values are required, they just want fast-on-power or
slow-on-battery sort of thing.

> What about
> "as-fast-as-possible-but-not-exceed-140MHz-because-batteries-are-
> running-low-and-can-not-give-enough-current"? That's different from
> "fast-high-power", but it is *also* different from
> "slow-low-power". [This actually matters on beasts like
> zaurus]. What about
> "as-low-power-as-possible-but-make-sure-you-can-keep-display-up"?
> [On some machines cpu must be > some HMz for display to still work].

this just shows how silly these complex schemes are

you pick two options, a slow and fast option; both should work


  --cw

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-18 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-18 21:42 Select voltage manually in cpufreq Pavel Machek
2003-02-18 21:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-02-18 21:58   ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-18 22:08     ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2003-02-18 22:16       ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-18 22:16       ` Russell King
2003-02-18 22:33         ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-02-19 10:15       ` Dave Jones
2003-02-19 14:43       ` John Bradford
2003-02-18 23:09   ` George Staikos
2003-02-19  2:02   ` Alan Cox
2003-02-19 15:31   ` Pavel Machek

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