Never heard back from you guys on the CPU timer issue

[steve]

So who is on the kernel list and what exactly does it address? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfgang Spraul [mailto:wolfgang at openmoko.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:05 AM
To: steve
Cc: 'Andy Green'; 'Sean Moss-Pultz'; 'Michael Shiloh'
Subject: Re: Never heard back from you guys on the CPU timer issue

pass it on to

openmoko-kernel at lists.openmoko.org

Thanks,
Wolfgang

On Jun 16, 2008, at 1:40 AM, steve wrote:

>
>  I have no idea what the kernel list is, who is on it, what it means, 
> or how to direct anyone to it. I get stuff. I pass it on.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Green [mailto:andy at openmoko.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 12:31 AM
> To: Wolfgang Spraul
> Cc: steve; Sean Moss-Pultz; Michael Shiloh
> Subject: Re: Never heard back from you guys on the CPU timer issue
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> | Steve,
> | the email you are including below was sent to you and Michael
> privately.
> | How can anyone else respond?
>
> Yes first I heard of it.  Wolfgang is right, get the guy to forward 
> these emails to the kernel list and half a dozen people can have an 
> idea about it.
>
> He basically proposes that kernel jiffies increase speed when 
> backlight is down, that would be strange.  But we use tickless kernel 
> option where jiffies get faked instead of the CPU woken on each tick, 
> so it's the kind of bug that is possible.
>
> - -Andy
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