Aight, that's valid (pretty much what I expected after talking on the IRC). <div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/23 Alex Deucher <<a href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2012/1/22 Andrée 'Glaucous' <<a href="mailto:glakke1@gmail.com">glakke1@gmail.com</a>>: <div><div class="h5">> Hello! > > It would be great to be able to modify power states during runtime, > especially for cards (such as mine) that have BIOS power states that are way > too high. > The easiest way would be to support it in sysfs, something like this: > > /sys/class/drm/card0/device: > --> power-states/ > ----> states > ----> state0/ > ------> modes > ------> clock-mode0/ > --------> engine > --------> memory > --------> voltage > > I have a working patch that changes ALL power states at the same time (for > testing purposes, but could be extended to modify each state individually > like above). > What I'm wondering is if this is a feature you'd be interested in, or if > it's too user unfriendly (since you can brick/damage your card, in worst > cases)? </div></div>I'd rather not have something like this upstream at this time as it makes it way too easy to program inappropriate power states on your card with no safe guards in place. Alex </blockquote></div>