Michael Pogue wrote: > How is "workstation" determined? Other OS's sometimes ask at install > time, but I don't recall such a question on Solaris install.... > There is currently no notion in Solaris of workstation or not. This has been a difficulty for the power management work. The SPARC workstations identify themselves if they are subject to the EPA's EnergyStar MOU, and which version of the MOU, by a root node property published by OBP. ACPI defines a Preferred_PM_Profile field in FADT that includes a platform type designation, but it seems to routinely be ignored by BIOS implementors, or set incorrectly. Solaris currently takes no notice of it.
-sarito > Mike > > Bart Smaalders wrote: > >> Mark Haywood wrote: >> >> >>> Because some users care more about performance than power and unless we >>> have reason to think otherwise, we favor those who want performance. >>> Currently, none of our x86 platforms are power managed by default. >>> That's likely to change in the future when we identify systems that we >>> would like to be E* compliant. >>> >> We may wish to power manage workstations by default. Improving the >> speed of power management response will also help enable this. >> >> - Bart >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > tesla-dev mailing list > tesla-dev at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/tesla-dev >
