This does not specify what happens if a platform does not support the specified mode? For example "enable-event-mode" on a SPARC platform. Will this default to "enable"?
Bill On 10/10/08 12:16, bugzilla-daemon at defect.opensolaris.org wrote: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3838 > > > > > > --- Comment #1 from Anup <napanda.pemmaiah at sun.com> 2008-10-10 12:16:49 > --- > Eric, > > It sounds good. Had couple of comments/questions to make myself clear. > > 1) event-mode will only exist for x86 right? If that is the case, by default > "cpupm enable" for x86 will be event mode and for sparc it will be > "polled-mode". Does that make sense? > > 2) If "polled-mode" has to be used, then I assume "cpupm enable" has to be > replaced by "cpupm polled-mode". > > 3) Instead of having 4 behaviors, How about having three. > > a)enable-event-mode > b) enable-polling-mode > c)disable > > x86 will support all the three and sparc supports just 'b' and 'c'. Just my > thoughts. > > Thanks > Anup > >
