powernowd vs. ondemand governor
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 16 14:58:01 UTC 2009
We currently ship powernowd in the desktop seed, its main purpose being to
load cpufreq modules set up the kernel's CPU frequency scaling governor. If
(and only if) that fails, it starts up powernowd instead. I'm not sure on
which platforms that's still needed, if any.
Is this still an appropriate default? Aren't the necessary modules loaded
automatically now? Would it be a better idea to set the default to ondemand
in the kernel and drop powernowd altogether?
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- mdz
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