[kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH] Add idle power save for ppc 4xx

[Jimi Xenidis]

On Mar 31, 2008, at 11:15 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 12:04 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>>>> I'm assuming you pass a dtb to the virtual guest when you start  
>>>>> it up.
>>>>> Could you define a property in the CPU node there that can be  
>>>>> parsed to
>>>>> use the power_save function instead of always making it the  
>>>>> default?
>>>>
>>>> Actually, you probably don't want this as a property in the device
>>>> tree.  It doesn't describe hardware.  A Kconfig option might be
>>>> warranted though.
>>>
>>> I'll go with the Kconfig option.
>>
>> Go with a device-tree check. The pseries kernel supports both bare- 
>> metal
>> and hypervisor in the same kernel image, and it works out which it's
>> running on by looking at the device-tree. This seems equivalent to  
>> me?
>
> After some back and forth on IRC, we decided on that as well.  I love
> being right, then wrong, then right again.

Awesome, can you summarize for the rest of us?
-JX