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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:18:50 +0100
From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Bishop Brock <bcbrock@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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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...

	Dominik
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