On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:51:49PM -0400, Tippett, Matthew wrote: > From a graphics perspective (your area of expertise), this will allow KMS > drivers to do some more intelligent actions based on the ac/dc state. > Some examples of this could be improving the power consumption of the > graphics hardware through adapting clock memory/engine settings for > reduced power consumption, reducing refresh rate of the display to reduce > scanout memory access, adjusting backlight brightness, etc. Right. As you say, my concern is that most of this should belong in userspace. Where we risk hardware damage there's an obvious argument for doing this in kernel, but we should ensure that that's limited to whatever coarse-grain handling is absolutely required rather than doing things like touching display brightness. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
