Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at laptop.org.au
Thu Feb 9 20:33:03 EST 2012


On 10 February 2012 10:56, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 17:47 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> > Well, we're testing this combination, someone has to take the lead.
>> > Without doing anything the XOs will never use the full potential of
>> > power saving that maybe available.
>>
>> This seems like a bit of change of direction from the mail that opened
>> this thread. Are you looking for stability (as the original mail
>> asked), or are you looking for maximum power saving? Unfortunately the
>> two are quite opposite in the present day, with respect to this topic.
>
> Looking for the happy middle ground that doesn't interfere with
> collaboration.

Emphasis on collaboration stability, but we would prefer not to have
massive battery drain while doing so. We understand that there are
trade-offs.

Sridhar



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