Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] PowerOP, PowerOP Core, 1/2

[Scott E. Preece]

| From pavel@xxxxxx Fri Sep 22 09:12:25 2006

Hi, Pavel,

| ...
|
| > | Okay, state here means "operating point". How will operating points
| > | look on 8cpu box? That's 256 states if cpus only support "low" and
| > | "high". How do you name them?
| > 
| > I don't think you would name the compounded states. Each CPU would need
| > to have its own defined set of operating points (since the capabilities
| > of the CPUs can reasonably be different).
| 
| Well, having few "powerop domains" per system would likely solve that
| problem... and problem of 20 devices on my PC. Can we get that?
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I've been hoping somebody would send a good description of exactly what
they mean by "power domain" or "voltage domain", so we could talk about
it... 

scott
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