It's clear that the current "design" of the interface
embodied in power.conf is poor when reading the man page.

What is needed is a design for a new interface, and
the SMF properties needed to implement that interface.
Proposals to hide data elsewhere are simply wrong.

The complex current semantics of power.conf are not desirable
or maintainable, and it should be abandoned as an interface.

Arguing about which properties are needed vs. which
government standards is pointless without a design
for a new interface.

Good OS interfaces are about abstraction of hardware/platform
differences.  Trying to design your way to a correct
interface from the current pile is pointless; decide
how it should work, keeping in mind both technical limitations
and business priorities, and design a new interface from
scratch.

- Bart




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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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