From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965100AbWIRNuE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:50:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965091AbWIRNuE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:50:04 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:21724 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965100AbWIRNuC (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:50:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:39:49 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Matthew Locke Cc: pm list , kernel list Subject: Re: PowerOP summary Message-ID: <20060918133949.GA9495@kroah.com> References: <330177f4f8f83d0d39034c8f05d4b1f7@nomadgs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <330177f4f8f83d0d39034c8f05d4b1f7@nomadgs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:28:25AM -0700, Matthew Locke wrote: > Summary > PowerOP is an interface to create and select operating points. > Operating points are a collection of platform specific system > parameters (ie not i/o devices) that affect power consumption. These > parameters include cpu frequency, voltages, clock sources and dividers > and others. PowerOP provides a platform independent interface to > control these platform specific parameters. This interface is a basic > building block of a power management stack for advanced power > management on embedded mobile devices. Will this also work properly for 2/4/8/16/512/1024 processor machines? They also need this kind of capability, and can not be ignored. thanks, greg k-h