From: Donald Bruce Stewart (donscse.unsw.edu.au)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 20:21:04 CDT

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suck:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:52:03AM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > suck:
> > > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 02:31:03AM +0200, rembrandt wrote:
> > > > I saw that SMP is still in work and ask myself whats happen with other
> > > > things. :-)
> > > >
> > > > Is someone working on ACPI, FireWire, a deamon for notebooks (managing
> > > > speedstep and co) or speed improvements?
> > >
> > > What's wrong with apmd?
> >
> > AFAIK apmd doesn't tweak hw.setperf values based on load avg
>
> Uhh, why would it? I want my laptop to be slow when I am on battery,
> and fast when I am on power. What does load average have to do with
> anything?

Maybe you do, but not everyone has such simple requirements.

I don't want to sit around for 2 hrs waiting for ghc to compile, when it
could compile in 30 mins at a higher clock freq, even if I'm on battery.
So I clock it up to 1.6GHz.

And maybe I want my laptop to stay cool, and to save electricity $, even
when I'm on power. So I drop down to 600Mhz when I'm just reading docs.

This isn't a job for apmd, of course.

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-- Don

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