Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:16:56 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.19-rc1-ac3 |
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:13:40PM +0200, Thomas Sailer wrote: > The point is that frequency scaling is normally used with voltage > scaling. And lowering the voltage decreases the maximum frequency > roughly linearly, while the dynamic power consumption decreases > quadratically with voltage.
Yes, but there are some systems out there where it is advantageous to use frequency scaling on hardware that supports it, without supporting voltage scaling.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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