On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:35:31PM +0300, Amit Kucheria wrote:
>  * ACTION: Amit A to document details on power supply class (battery info) to 
> PowerTOP internal wiki page

Is there an internal wiki for PowerTOP, or is this an internal page on
the Linaro wiki?

>   * ACTION: ARM to discuss giving out internal Eclipse based tool (similar to 
> powertop)  (no ETA as of now)   

Is this tool included or based on ARM's DS-5 kit?

>   * Power management differentiation
>       * Discussion with Robin from ARM about common frameworks
>       * Robin not convinced about all the consolidation effort, since some of 
> it is seen as competetive differentiator
>       * Amit K believes Mechanism should be common amongst vendors so that 
> can use common tools and design patterns.
>           * Policies can be different to allow differentiation
>           * e.g. have a cpufreq and cpuidle driver allows all vendors to use 
> powertop tool. If current frameworks don't suit the needs, we can work with 
> upstream to extend them.

This is the correct approach; mechanism should be common and provided by
the upstream kernel. Policy should be implemented by vendors and
deployed in the way which makes most sense for their projects.
-- 
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