Update on DeviceKit

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed May 7 10:39:48 PDT 2008


On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:23:41PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:

> By the same token should we also care about voltage / power management
> on the GPU etc? Of course, not, leave that to the _driver_. Which is X.

I should probably clarify something here. On a lot of hardware, the 
backlight is *not* related to the graphics hardware in any reasonable 
way. It's possible to make X handle this, but at that point X is just 
your abstraction layer.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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