Re: IBM/MontaVista Dynamic Power Management Project

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
03 Dec 2002 18:39:56 +0000

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 17:46, Bishop Brock wrote:
> IBM and MontaVista have initiated a joint project to develop a
> dynamic power management control and policy mechanism for Linux
> for processors supporting dynamic voltage and frequency scaling.
> A paper describing the proposal can be obtained from
>
> http://www.research.ibm.com/arl/projects/dpm.html

Interesting. One small question however. The paper says "Others have
also explored the possibilities of this type of fine grained control".
More to the point however they have patents covering them. What does IBM
intend to do about that ?

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