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As a result of some discussion during the Linux PM summit between 
myself, Todd Poynor, Dominik Brodowski, Mark Gross, Amit Kucheria and a
few others, Eugeny and I have been working on getting a power
management interface called PowerOP accepted. A good bit of
discussion has occurred on linux-pm over the last couple months about
PowerOP interfaces and why its needed. Here is a short summary
requested by Greg:

Summary
PowerOP is an interface to create and select operating points.
Operating points are a collection of platform specific system
parameters (ie not i/o devices) that affect power consumption. These
parameters include cpu frequency, voltages, clock sources and dividers
and others. PowerOP provides a platform independent interface to
control these platform specific parameters. This interface is a basic
building block of a power management stack for advanced power
management on embedded mobile devices. For those familiar with
cpufreq, it can be viewed as a redesign of the cpufreq_driver layer to
be platform independent and enable more advanced governors and policies
on hardware with lots of power parameters.

Developers
Matthew Locke and Eugeny Mints are the main guys behind PowerOP now but
many have contributed to get to this point.

A few key points
- PowerOP does not replace cpufreq
- PowerOP authors and advocates are not suggesting to replace cpufreq
- PowerOP is required for doing power management on embedded mobile
devices
- PowerOP patches are standalone and do not require integration with
cpufreq or suspend/resume subsystems
- PowerOP does not break anything including existing userspace
interface and centrino code.

We will resend the patches again for review and discussion. Each patch
contains more detailed description.


Matt and Eugeny

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