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From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
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Subject: Re: My experience with cpufreq in -STABLE
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On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:45:17PM +0200, Frank Behrens wrote:
> 1. Thanks to the people providing cpufreq interface and driver. 
> 2. Confirmation that it seems to work well on -STABLE. 
> 3. I want to ask the question: Are there are other, more 
> sophisticated programs to control the current cpu frequency? 
> 4. If desired I could release the sources for my control daemon, may 
> be for inclusion in the base system? That requires that I beautify 
> the sources a little bit, but that should not be a problem.  

You may start looking at src/usr.sbin/powerd in -current, and improve it
a bit?  The actual algorithm used in powerd may need some rework IMHO.

Cheers,

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.