From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Robert Love <rml@ximian.com>
Cc: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Laptops & CPU frequency
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:42:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040115204257.GG467@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074107842.1153.959.camel@localhost>
Hi!
> > I have an athlon-xp laptop (HP pavilion ze4500) with powernow that
> > definitely goes into low power mode when the plug is pulled. The screen
> > goes dark, and everything slows down.
>
> Dave did not mean that the other power management schemes cannot do the
> automatic reduction on loss of AC, just that there is no SMM/BIOS hacks
> to do it automatically.
People are designing machines where battery can't provide
enough ampers for cpu in high-power mode. If speedstep machines
have same problem, SMM is actually right thing to do.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-15 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-11 2:56 Laptops & CPU frequency jlnance
2004-01-11 3:17 ` Robert Love
2004-01-11 4:12 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-11 6:16 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-01-11 10:27 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-11 10:33 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-12 16:58 ` Jerry Cooperstein
2004-01-12 21:19 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-12 19:52 ` john stultz
2004-01-12 20:11 ` Disconnect
2004-01-12 23:19 ` john stultz
2004-01-12 21:28 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-12 22:07 ` john stultz
2004-01-13 9:13 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-11 17:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-01-11 17:13 ` Robert Love
2004-01-11 17:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-01-11 17:54 ` Robert Love
2004-01-14 4:59 ` Dave Jones
2004-01-14 19:11 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-01-14 19:17 ` Robert Love
2004-01-14 19:23 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-01-15 20:42 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-01-15 21:18 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-01-15 22:21 ` John Bradford
2004-01-15 22:48 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-19 17:44 ` Ducrot Bruno
2004-01-16 10:47 ` Pavel Machek
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