Hi,
Not possible. "PowerPlay" is inside Catalyst, not the BIOS.
I think that PowerPlay is the marketing term behind a very simple concept: change the Vcore and the various frequencies (GPU and memory controller) depending on the pm policy and the graphic card's BIOS contains all the tables, predefined values for the != components, for every kind of usage. Try to have a look on RBE, the Radeon Bios Editor, I mentioned its URL in the previous e-mail.
2. Wait for the proper PowerPlay support in radeonhd.
Right?
That would be best :P Another option (normally) is to buy an aftermarket cooler, but that's not possible with a laptop.
I think power management is MANDATORY for graphics chips meant to be embedded into laptops. Any way to put the pressure on AMD/ATI to open up the documentation for such a feature?
There has been pressure to open up their PowerPlay code, but they claim that's a trade secret. :P
What a non-sense... Maybe they're claiming so because of an IP or a patent that they don't want to infringe on. It's plain stupid... PowerPlay is *so* required for laptops. Heat means less chip lifetime, and they have to give that up for the sake of the users. We don't want to have an Nvidia-like fiasco (on the long term) with ATI chips. Regards, Ilyes Gouta.
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