Hi Liu,

Really appreciate your comments. Solaris ACPI CA engineers has been
discussing about issues related to this and the discussion is ongoing.
When it gets finalized might file a bug and also post it in opensolaris
for comments.

Thanks
Anup

Liu, Jiang wrote:
> hi Mark an Anup,
>       A quick thought, how about replacing acpi_stubs.c implementation with 
> Solaris standard module stub facility?
>       By adopting such a change, it can simplify the implemnetation and make 
> thing clearer.
>       Please take a look at uts/intel/ia32/ml/modstubs.s and 
> uts/sparc/ml/modstubs.s.
>       Thanks!
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tesla-dev-bounces at opensolaris.org 
>> [mailto:tesla-dev-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Mark Haywood
>> Sent: 2008?12?9? 10:14
>> To: tesla-dev at opensolaris.org
>> Subject: [tesla-dev] CPUPM support in the kernel
>>
>> Anup and I have been working on moving the core CPUPM support from the 
>> CPU driver - into the kernel. Our goal is to make the CPU driver 
>> specific to polling CPU power management and not have PAD 
>> depend on the 
>> driver at all. That means moving a fair bit of the i86pc specific CPU 
>> power management support (ACPI parsing and caching, speedstep, pwrnow, 
>> cstate and tstate handling) into the kernel. This eliminates the need 
>> for callback mechanism into the CPU driver. Unfortunately, 
>> since acpica 
>> is a module, it does require callbacks for that. But those have been 
>> centralized into the existing uts/i86pc/os/acpi_stubs.c file.
>>
>> We've posted a webrev of our effort at:
>>
>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~mhaywood/cpupm-move/
>>
>> We'd appreciate any comments.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mark
>>
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