Re: Linux 2.4.19-rc1-ac3

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:16:56 +0100

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.

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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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