On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:52:29 -0800 (PST), Patrick Mochel <mochel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jordan Crouse wrote: > > > On 09/03/05 06:57 -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > > What is "DPM"? > > > > http://dynamicpower.sourceforge.net > > Fantastic. Montavista is again splintering development efforts? If there's truly a concern over this, please be advised that language at that site that hints at a broader purpose for investigating power management of embedded systems long predates this forum, and I will update the site to redirect folks interested in such issues to linux-pm. The DPM project is actually specifcally about interfaces for runtime management of platform power parameters, a la cpufreq, with added tidbits as embedded alternatives to the types of functions commonly performed by acpid. The original IBM and MontaVista developers did previously discuss various aspects of DPM technology felt to be useful for incorporation in standard Linux with the cpufreq developers but these ideas did not gain acceptance at that time. There are also other aspects that have been specifically rejected by cpufreq maintainers. Hence this has lived on as an out-of-tree open source project in the meantime, but yes, it is my job to attempt to gain acceptance of certain features that would benefit all, and I will try this soon. This doesn't seem to be a particularly egregious example of splintering in the long history of PM-related project forkage... -- Todd
