AMD Has Massive Radeon Patch Set - Power Management!

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Title: AMD Has Massive Radeon Patch Set - Power Management! ( -at -) Phoronix

Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5NjE

Summary: "For AMD Radeon customers using the open-source Linux graphics

driver, the Linux 3.11 kernel is going to be mega exciting! Alex Deucher

of AMD posted a set of 165 kernel patches today. Most notably, there's

finally Dynamic Power Management (DPM) support for R600 GPUs up through

Southern Islands hardware! Yes, there's finally dynamic power management

in the open-source driver. Additionally, there's initial support for AMD

"Sea Islands" hardware and there's also ASPM (Active State Power

Management) support."

 

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