powernowd and laptop mode

Rui Tiago Matos tiagomatos at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 06:22:19 CST 2005


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:47:58 +0100, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> Non-mobile P4s are a poor choice for laptops.

Now you tell me :-)

> There's really not a lot
> we can do about that, other than disable frequency scaling on them.

Yes, just a little check to disable powernowd on these kind of CPUs
would do very well.

Rui



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