On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 15:58 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > The kernel has had the scaling governor modules for a while now and I am > > not sure why Fedora is still relying on the cpuspeed daemon by default. > > is it? Afaik most cpus actually use the ondemand governer, which lets > the kernel do the frequency switches on demand, and quickly ;) > Yes the enabling of this happens from the cpuspeed initscript, but the > cpuspeed daemon isn't actually involved anymore for just about any > modern system. > > In my experience, ondemand works really well and I've not yet found that > I wanted to override it. Maybe if you absolutely want the longest > battery life and always want only the lowest frequency > (but then again the frequency range is a tunable for ondemand anyway) Looks like it is only setting up ondemand for centrino|powernow-k8, which explains why my xp-m is left out in the cold. Any reason why it is limited to those two chipsets? It would also be nice to have it read from /etc/sysconfig so more of the governor modules can be loaded. Jon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
