powernowd vs. ondemand governor

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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?

Just last week, I added powernowd to the server seed for these reasons
(to load the cpufreq modules and set the governor to 'on-demand' by
default).

If there is a simpler mechanism for accomplishing this (eg, set that
default in the kernel), we could drop the powernowd package from the
server seed as well.

:-Dustin