Re: Laptops & CPU frequency

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > I have an athlon-xp laptop (HP pavilion ze4500) with powernow that
> > definitely goes into low power mode when the plug is pulled.  The screen
> > goes dark, and everything slows down.
> 
> Dave did not mean that the other power management schemes cannot do the
> automatic reduction on loss of AC, just that there is no SMM/BIOS hacks
> to do it automatically.

People are designing machines where battery can't provide
enough ampers for cpu in high-power mode. If speedstep machines
have same problem, SMM is actually right thing to do.
				Pavel
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