Re: Better Thermal Management for the Workstation - Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:30:21AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> So, this was discussed quite a bit in
> https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/71 and the conclusion that
> the Workstatopn Working Group came to 3 months ago was that we didn't
> want to do this. We basically understood that main way of using
> thermald was to use the proprietary dptfxtract tool to extract a
> profile from ACPI - and as such, thermald wasn't something Fedora
> should install by default. This functionality can't be properly
> integrated into Fedora and "just work" for users if it requires a
> proprietary tool and extra steps.

Is there some background about why dptfxtract is proprietary?  (I see
that it's a program provided by Intel.)  Is it just because no one's
done the work to make a free equivalent or does it require some
secret/patented/whatever knowledge to work?

Rich.

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