Re: power management on iBook (mid 2005)
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:56:45AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 19:14 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 06:03:14PM +0100, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> >
> > > 3) Is it possible to use ondemand scaling governor on powerpc iBook?
> >
> > No. The scaling governors all pretty much assume intel.
>
> That's not the issue; changing the clock just takes too long on
> Power/iBooks to be usable for the ondemand governor.
Depends on what you define as "assume". What I meant by "assume" is that
they "assume" intel-like speeds in changing clock speeds.
I can't accept that it is impossible to write a governor similar to
ondemand (or even 'conservative') that would actually work on powerpc.
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