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Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 15:50:03 PST 2011


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> On 02/25/2011 06:19 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>> The memory clock is still running at whatever clock it's set to unless
>> you manually change it.  Things are like displays are constantly being
>> fed from vram.
>
> Sure, the master clock is still running, but the dac only reads from the
> frame buffer so fast.  Most of the clocks should be idle ( no read or write
> line asserted, no addressing, etc ) so it shouldn't be dissipating THAT much
> heat should it?
>

The clocks branches are all on and as I said before, clock gating
isn't implemented yet on newer asics.

Alex


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