Karl-- Yes, it makes sense to file a CR against needing support for power management.
The more CRs we get (especially from people outside Sun), the more chance we have about getting functionality for the EeePC putback into OpenSolaris. Thanks, --Robs Karl Dalen vociferated on 10/15/08 03:40: > Hi, > > Suspend/resume works fine but unfortunately there appears > to be no plan to support the Celeron processor. I asked about this in the pm > group: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=78358&tstart=0 > > Has anyone been able to control CPU frequency in the Eee PC in any way. Based > on measuring run-time of a simple simulator I have I get different speed (CPU > frequency) > depending on if I boot on AC alone, boot on battery or resume after > suspend-to-ram. > > Without the solaris power manager working what determines what CPU frequency > I get when I boot up. Can I set this up in the BIOS ? I browsed through the > various menus in the BIOS of my 900 (Rev. 0802) but I could not see any > options related to CPU frequency. > > I have verified in Linux that the 900 indeed supports CPU frequency variation > between 112-900MHz in speedstep mode. In most cases I suppose it would be > enough to just be able to set the frequency to 112MHz (power save) or 900 MHz > (performance) > > Don't know if it makes sense to file a bug about power management of the Eee > PC 900. > > Regards, > > /Karl D > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Discover the new Windows Vista > http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE > _______________________________________________ > eeepc-discuss mailing list > eeepc-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/eeepc-discuss
