On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Why is there need for another tool? > ----------------------------------- > > CPU power consumption vs performance tuning is not about > CPU frequency switching anymore for quite some time. > Deep sleep states, traditional dynamic frequency scaling and > hidden turbo/boost frequencies are tight close together and > depend on each other. The first two exist on different architectures > like PPC, Itanium and ARM the latter only on X86. > On X86 the APU (CPU+GPU) will only run most efficiently if CPU > and GPU has proper power management in place. > > Users and Developers want to have *one* tool to get an overview what their > system supports and to monitor and debug CPU power management in detail. > > The tool should compile and work on as much architectures as > possible. > Hi Thomas, Do you think handling really vendor specific "boosts" like EeePC's SHE is in cpupower scope ? Still, it would not solve the issue of setting SHE mode in a standard way, or associating it with a governor. Thanks, -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
