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Re: Power management with ATI Radeon cards using the radeon driver.
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Phil Perry <[log in to unmask]>
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Phil Perry <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:10:18 +0000
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On 19/03/13 00:27, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 19/03/13 09:05, David Crick wrote:
>> Thanks for this.
>>
>> The Wiki actually says kernel 2.6.35 or newer is required,
>> but TUV must have backported it because they're there
>> and available to be set in 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64
>
> Yeah - this is one of the 'joys' of the TUV Franken-kernel. You never
> know what backported stuff you'll get. Sometimes I think it is called
> 2.6.32 only because that is what it started with.
>
> The end result certainly isn't 2.6.32 anymore ;)
>

Correct, it is 2.6.32 in name only. For example, in the 6.4 release TUV 
backported the wireless stack from kernel-3.5 so in that particular 
department you essentially have a 3.5 kernel (in 6.4).

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