Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:21:22 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Power-Mgt (Was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c ) Message-ID: <5753.1205785282@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:18:36 %2B0100." <47DED21C.4070108@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <47DED21C.4070108@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway writes: >I think this is a great idea, but one of the big problems is probably >going to be dealing with hardware quirks. e.g. we can't even enable >powerd by default because e.g. acpi_throttle hangs on some systems. It >might be tricky to get power management to the stage where it works for >everyone and can be done automatically. I'd expect that this will improve over time, just like all other technologies from ISA to PCI bus implementations did. But yes, it will take time & effort, but given the current cleantech/greentech buzz, I think we'd better get moving. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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