powernowd vs. ondemand governor

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 06:50:34PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > 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.
> well, its just a set of test scripts that are executed from the
> powernowd initscripts (not even related to powernowd), imho even if we
> keep them they should be split out into a separate package with a more
> informative name ...

They're related to powernowd in the sense that powernowd is the fallback to
use on systems that don't support the other methods.

So dropping powernowd means dropping power management on some hardware.

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