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Originally posted by Vim_User View PostIt would be great news, if it actually would work. For now, I am still stuck with an overheating laptop and manual powersaving, since the new dpm driver always runs my machine in performance mode. This is something that is to be expected, since this code is largely untested and of course will have problems.
Have to wait for answer to that problem from a developer in the original thread about this topic, then we will see how great this is.
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Originally posted by madbiologist View Post165 patches consisting of more than 52 thousand lines of code, just in the drm/radeon subsystem. Linus is going to have a heart attack when he sees that
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Originally posted by arianon View PostDoes anyone know if the new power management code will also benefit older cards using the r300g driver?
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostI don't think he cares that much about driver code, especially since this is adding new hardware support. As long as it comes in during the merge window, and not for rc6.All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by set135Just a note, 52k lines of code change would only get you into 3rd place in the 3.9 kernel in terms of a companies contribution. Intel had over 75k. Amazing pace of developement...
https://lwn.net/Articles/547073/
However you are right, intel changed a LOT on 3.9, especially when you look at 3rd place, Wind River, is an Intel subsidiary.
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Originally posted by n3wu53r View PostAMD added 52k new lines of code, not changed 52k lines. It's more.
However you are right, intel changed a LOT on 3.9, especially when you look at 3rd place, Wind River, is an Intel subsidiary.
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