Bug#607924: Power management

2011-02-19 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 19 2011, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 02/18/2011 12:58 AM, Rogério Brito wrote: > >I have some patches to the ondemand cpufreq regulator, but it will need a > >lot of fine tuning to make ondemand work (if at all). OTOH, using > >powernowd usually works OK for my computer. > > Can you be more sp

Bug#607924: Power management

2011-02-19 Thread Phillip Susi
On 02/18/2011 12:58 AM, Rogério Brito wrote: On Dec 16 2010, Phillip Susi wrote: Powernowd used to accomplish the same thing as ACPI P-states by directly manipulating the amd k8 cpu registers. No, it doesn't. It is just a userspace governor and, despite the name, it is not tied to AMD cpus.