Subject: Re: enhanced speedstep daemon
To: Ove Soerensen <ove@elektro-eel.org>
From: Steven J. Dovich <dovich@tiac.net>
List: current-users
Date: 07/18/2004 00:12:46
Ove Soerensen writes:
> Enhanced Speedstep support has been in -current for quite a while now,
> so it's about time we really start to take advantage of it. I have
> written a small daemon that controls the cpu-frequency depending on the
> workload of the system. It's really tiny but has plenty of options to
> make everybody happy. I've been using this on my laptop for some time
> and it really saved me some battery-hours (and lowered the temperature).
> NetBSD-hackers running -current on a laptop will probably find this
> useful as well, so i have made it available for download at:
> http://www.elektro-eel.org/estd-netbsd-r1.tar.gz
And I should direct folks to the patch in PR port-i386/26342 for
Enhanced SpeedStep support on the Dothan chips.
/sjd