On 13 March 2012 15:44, Sundar <sunder.svit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Sundar, > > Hi Amit, > >> At the moment it doesn't. But there was some discussion around >> creating something that will work with devfreq. This would allow >> peripheral drivers to be plugged in as well. Amit is investigating >> that at present. > > What if we work towards a generic constraint framework which models > thermals as a performance constraint. > > Drivers can register to this constraint; platform code can then decide > to issue restrictions either to the CPU or other power-hungry > peripherals based on the platform conditions. > > That also allows to model CPU frequency as a generic constraint but > via an actual consumer, say the thermal driver. Yes that should be helpful. Even the things your are suggesting are somewhat same with some patches submitted which sets cpufreq min/max constraint. > > Cheers! > > -- > --------- > The views expressed in this email are personal and do not necessarily > echo my employers. -- 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
