The 3.16 kernel has been released

Posted Aug 12, 2014 1:07 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: The 3.16 kernel has been released by kloczek
Parent article: The 3.16 kernel has been released

I have a nice Core2 server chugging along quite nicely, with varied payloads. And it's been running since 2006, I think. Having PM is not an advantage now, it's a prerequisite.

The 3.16 kernel has been released

Posted Aug 12, 2014 10:51 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I'm wondering how on earth anyone could implement power management 'in way which makes very easy to extend it across any possible type of hardware components'. This seems an impossible, lunatic claim to me: they simply vary too much. Did Solaris have support for frequency-stepping CPUs, or boostable CPUs, or PCI power management, or asymmetric contraptions like big.LITTLE before they were thought of? Of course not, and none of those things would have been especially trivial to implement (of necessity: just modelling their behaviour is hard).

This is the second time in a few days that kloczek has suggested that the Solaris guys had the gift of perfect foresight. I'm coming to the conclusion that kloczek speaks with great decisiveness on numerous subjects about which he(?) has very limited actual knowledge, bending all facts to the Truth that his preferred OS is the Greatest Ever. Clearly kloczek is either in management, or is a teenager. :P