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From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
       Dominik Brodowski <devel@brodo.de>, cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk,
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:21:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5.32] CPU frequency and voltage scaling (0/4)
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be careful here, it's not unreasonable to imagine a power saving mode that
shuts down one CPU of a SMP machine.

don't make assumptions about what parameters make sense for all possible
policies, try to find some way for the parameters to depend on the policy
selected.

David Lang


On 29 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> Date: 29 Aug 2002 11:53:40 +0100
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <devel@brodo.de>, cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk,
>      linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5.32] CPU frequency and voltage scaling (0/4)
>
> >  { min-Hz, max-Hz, policy }
> >
>
> For a few of the processors "event-hz" or similar would be nice. The
> Geode supports hardware assisted bursting to full processor speed when
> doing SMM, I/O and IRQ handling.
>
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