| From pavel at ucw.cz Thu Sep 14 08:03:52 2006 | Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:03:11 +0200 | From: Pavel Machek<pavel at ucw.cz> | Cc: Matthew Locke<matthew.a.locke at comcast.net>, | User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 | | | > Pavel, | | > > > operating points it is possible to implement the "cpufreq frequency | > > > selection logic" in user space and having such functionality in the kernel | > > > just violates the main rule of having everything possible outside of the | > > > kernel. | > > | > > You got the rules wrong. "Keep the code out of kernel" is important | > > rule, but probably not the main one. | > | > from aside, it looks like you're choosing 'rules' and assign then | > 'priorities' in a too arbitrary way which is by a strange accident | > fits your point of view best of all. | > May I remind you that Linux world is not only laptops and Sharp Zaurus? ;) | | Actually, laptops and zauruses seem to be the only "interesting" | machines from pm perspective. Then there are Motorola cellphones, but | Motorola tried hard not to enable users changing kernel... so they are | irrelevant. --- It would be interesting to see a breakdown by numbers as to where most copies of Linux are. If embedded devices aren't the leader now, they will be soon. I do not speak for Motorola, so I won't respond to the dig... scott -- scott preece motorola mobile devices, il67, 1800 s. oak st., champaign, il 61820 e-mail: preece at motorola.com fax: +1-217-384-8550 phone: +1-217-384-8589 cell: +1-217-433-6114 pager: 2174336114 at vtext.com
