Andrei Dorofeev wrote: > I think there could be two approaches: > > 1) Intel puts all of their processors in three categories: single socket, > dual socket (DP) and MP. So it should be possible to tell roughly > what kind of system we have just by looking at the part number. > > 2) ACPI FADT table has a special field called "Preferred_PM_Profile" >
The Suspend Resume project found Preferred_PM_Profile to be wrong on most systems internal and external. It could not be used for default Energy Star/Suspend Resume enable. I'll see if I can dig up that email. Regards, Bill > which gets set by the OEMs to convey preferred power management > profile to OSPM. See page 114 in ACPI3.0a spec for the complete > list. > > Hope this helps, > - Andrei > > On 7/24/07, Michael Pogue <Michael.Pogue at sun.com> wrote: > >> How is "workstation" determined? Other OS's sometimes ask at install >> time, but I don't recall such a question on Solaris install.... >> >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > tesla-dev mailing list > tesla-dev at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/tesla-dev >
