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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2007 15:38:54 +0900
From:      Takanori Watanabe <takawata@init-main.com>
To:        "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Cc:        acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PowerTOP for FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <200705150638.l4F6csGn023084@sana.init-main.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 May 2007 13:04:04 %2B0800." <20070515050404.GK49628@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au>

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In message <20070515050404.GK49628@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au>, "Wilkinson, Ale
x" さんいわく:
>Any chance this will get ported to FreeBSD ?
>
>   "Intel is proud to announce the PowerTOP tool, a program that collects the
>    various pieces of information from your system and presents an overview of
> how
>    well your laptop is doing in terms of power savings. In addition, PowerTOP
> will
>    provide an indication of which tunables and software components are the biggest
>    offenders in slurping up your battery time. PowerTOP will update it's display
>    frequently so that you can directly see the impact of any changes you are
>    making."
>
>   [http://www.linuxpowertop.org/].

I think it is not so hard to port the tool itself, but it is not quite useful 
for FreeBSD now, because it is useful under linux kernel with NO_HZ option,
which is not implimented on FreeBSD.




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