Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/85xx: add hardware automatically enter altivec idle state
- From
- Kumar Gala <hidden>
- Date
- 2013-08-16 11:02:51
- Reply to
- Dongsheng Wang, 2013-08-16
On Aug 16, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Dongsheng Wang wrote:
From: Wang Dongsheng <redacted> =20 Each core's AltiVec unit may be placed into a power savings mode by turning off power to the unit. Core hardware will automatically power down the AltiVec unit after no AltiVec instructions have executed in N cycles. The AltiVec power-control is triggered by =
hardware.
=20 Signed-off-by: Wang Dongsheng <redacted>
Why treat this as a idle HW governor vs just some one time setup at boot =
of the time delay?
- k=