True. PDAs and mobile devices also use it. So it may be supported for platforms like AMD's Alchemy (e.g. they have a PDA reference design). -earlm > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter Popov > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:53 AM > To: Mitchell, Earl; Ivan Korzakow; linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: power management on mips > > > > > > > I think. While back I read that MontaVista and IBM > > were working on > > something called Dynamic Power Mgmt (DPM). Might > > want to check that out? > > See links below. > > That's alive and well in shipping mobile phones and > perhaps other devices. However, it requires quite a > bit of work to port it to a new architecture/cpu and > as far as I know it never went mainstream. You'll end > up with somewhat of a custom PM solution. Nothing > wrong with that, as long as you're willing to maintain > it internally as your kernel revs forward. > > Pete > > > -earlm > > > > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4297534594.html > > > http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/PowerManagementDefini tionOfTerms_5fR2 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf > Of Ivan Korzakow > > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:01 AM > > To: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: power management on mips > > > > > > Hi list, > > > > Does anyone knows what power management features > are there for mips ? > > I know for example that ACPI have been porting to > arm. Anything > > equivalent for mips ? Is it possible to do some > power management under > > Linux if ACPI or APM is not ported to mips ? And > if yes, what would be > > the work to do ? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Ivan > > > > > >
