From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 14 05:12:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F032106564A; Thu, 14 May 2009 05:12:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [220.233.188.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96668FC15; Thu, 14 May 2009 05:12:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n4E5Bt99042717; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:11:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:11:54 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Nate Lawson In-Reply-To: <4A0B43DC.9060708@root.org> Message-ID: <20090514145235.T46325@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <49FE1826.4060000@FreeBSD.org> <4A07BC4D.7080604@freebsd.org> <4A081868.6010906@FreeBSD.org> <3a142e750905111308o62a11c8em5465ea9aa1cfaebc@mail.gmail.com> <4A08B10E.4040702@FreeBSD.org> <1242110455.2664.9.camel@slate01> <20090512182420.K46325@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4A0B43DC.9060708@root.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Gary Dunn , Alexander Motin , "Paul B. Mahol" , FreeBSD acpi , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fighting for the power. X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 05:12:06 -0000 On Wed, 13 May 2009, Nate Lawson wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Gary Dunn wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 02:13 +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > > > What's about general effect, the main idea here is the same as in audio > > > > processing: result mostly depends on quality of the worst component. > > > > Your system may just have some other consumers which I don't have. For > > > > example, desktop CPU instead of mobile, desktop chipset instead of > > > > mobile, powerful external video instead of (or even in addition to) > > > > built-in, and so on. > > > > > > > > > > Interesting point. Is there a power consumption benchmark for evaluating > > > hardware for use with FreeBSD? > > > > make buildworld, running on battery? :-) > > > > More seriously: thanks to Nate's earlier niggling, I've been thinking > > towards a richer set of power profiles than our {performance,economy} > > dichotomy for a while, both in terms of various different work/play and > > AC/battery scenarious, and re specific settings that may be more or less > > optimal for particular hardware, that could be distributed or advised as > > more of a basic working set rather than as a series of 'try this' hints. > > > > FYI, Cyrille Szymanski has implemented a patch to add this kind of power > profile support to powerd(8). I'd like to see it finished and committed. Good to hear, thanks. I'd like to see where it's up to. PR? cheers, Ian [removed current@ cc as I'm not subscribed - add it back if relevant]