Subject: Re: Driver for Enhanced SpeedStep
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: None <tripledes@eslack.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/06/2003 03:18:04
>
> On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 06:55  AM, Noriyuki Soda wrote:
>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:34:41 +0100,
>> 	Frank van der Linden <fvdl@NetBSD.org> said:
>>
>>> Cool, thanks for doing this. I'm not sure that sysctl is the right
>>> interface to this;
>>
>> I like a device file instead of sysctl for this kind of things
>> (including power control).
>> Because one can use chown/chmod to control the permission of
>> the operations (especially by /etc/ttyaction).
>
> The sysmon_power (which uses a device file) is what I envisioned this
> sort of thing hooking into.  In addition to power-related events, I see
> power consumption policy being set through this interface, as well (it
> is simply not yet implemented).
>
> With the right abstraction in front of it, EST and LongRun could both
> be supported through the same interface, I think.
>
>          -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
>


Anyone working on PowerNOW! support?

Regards.