Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:58:12 -0700 | From | "Darrick J. Wong" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters |
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:25:54PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > Hi Darrick, > On the system you are planning to run this on... > Are the power meters in the processor, or elsewhere? > > If they are the ones in the processor, I'd rather that > Linux use a native model-specific driver to access those > registers and not use ACPI.
They're not in the processor. Right now we're simulating the meters in kvm until we get real hardware, though it could be a mechanism to report per-VM power use.
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