On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Thomas Daede <bztdlinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/07/2017 05:04 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Powertop, maybe it ought to be a feature request for F27, and see if a >> bunch of bug reports happen during the beta *shrug*. I've used it on >> an ancient and new laptop, of different manufacture, and haven't had a >> problem. But of course if it puts e.g. USB bus to sleep and there's a >> bug preventing it from waking up when someone plugs a flash drive in, >> that'd be pretty annoying as default behavior if this is a >> possibility. > > Powertop by itself doesn't set any tunables on boot There is a systemd unit that runs powertop with --auto-tune > For stuff like framebuffer compression, the Intel driver only enables it > on sufficiently new hardware where it's expected bugs are less likely. > Maybe some similar heuristic could be used for setting default tunables, > but I'm not sure what it would be without specific examples. > > thermald seems to be something else entirely - it's for thermal > throttling. This might prevent the thermal MCE's that pop up when my > machine overheats, but as far as I can tell is an independent issue. It does prevent the thermal MCE warnings on one of my laptops; seems to more aggressively throttle that machine while also maybe ramping up the fans sooner. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
