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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon,  6 Jun 2011 14:36:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.
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> Finally for this, what would it take to have the GPU treated as a processor
> bank for idling and tasks not requiring a full CPU core?

leaving trifling software problems tiny running general-purpose
code on a special-purpose bit of haradware and running multiple
cpu arches in the same machine aside, why wouldn't you prefer
to idle the gpu, since it usually less power-efficient than your cpu?
pci-sig is working on 300+w pcie power for gpus.

- erik