Re: We suck in power management ...

[Hasso Tepper <hasso@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     est is far prefered over the ACPI idle hook.  The ACPI hook is a
> disaster and frankly shouldn't be used.

Well ... I have here hacked together est module for core 2 CPU's (mainly 
work done by Michal Belczyk [1]) and the result is that although changing 
voltage has effect, changing frequency doesn't have any effect to power 
usage or heat. CPU is just slower. I havent digged deep into it yet, 
though ... 

[1] - http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/bugs/2007-04/msg00099.html


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Hasso Tepper