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LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 16, 2012
Book review: Open Advice
Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE
LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 9, 2012
XBMC 11 "Eden"
It strikes me that this problem has been studied already. For many applications, the kernel *can* discover usage patterns and adapt to save power. See for example the Vertigo project: http://www.arm.com/pdfs/IEMSoftwarePaper-OSDI2002.pdf
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