Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:18:50 +0100 | From | Dominik Brodowski <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-pm-devel] Re: IBM/MontaVista Dynamic Power Management Project |
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:57:49PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 18:46, Bishop Brock wrote: > > IBM and MontaVista have initiated a joint project to develop a > > dynamic power management control and policy mechanism for Linux > > for processors supporting dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. > > A paper describing the proposal can be obtained from > > > > http://www.research.ibm.com/arl/projects/dpm.html > > > > A working prototype of the proposed framework for > > the IBM PowerPC 405LP processor exists and will be made > > public in the near future. > > any idea if/how this will fit into the existing cross platform cpufreq > framework ?
Actually, if I understand IBM's proposal right, it seems to be an alternative to cpufreq: a different "mid-layer" between the low-level processor drivers, other kernel code, and the user. So it's not an extension to an existing feature, but a new feature - Halloween was some weeks ago...
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