Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:11:54 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>, FreeBSD acpi <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fighting for the power. Message-ID: <20090514145235.T46325@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <4A0B43DC.9060708@root.org> 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>
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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
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