Re: Powermanagment of the new iBook (11.2002)

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

 
>>   Isn't this patch in the current benh kernel ?
>
> A slightly different version is in my bk (2.4.21-pre3), and will
> be in my rsync once I release a new snapshot (will be 2.4.20-ben2),
> probably early next week.

Good.

> However, this workaround isn't very satisfying. If you use DRI at
> all, the machine will crash, and since the chip isn't suspended
> at all, you'll eat more battery power. There may be other problems
> as the chip engine can be screwed up badly this, but well, it's
> the best we have for now for M7's.

This is far better than having nothing at all. If DRI must be
disabled, then I'll disable it.

Thanks a lot for you good work!

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant

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