Re: lesswatts.org

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms 1407 org>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:13:13PM -0600, Richi Plana wrote:
> Of the several projects hosted on http://www.lesswatts.org/ (PowerTOP,
> Tickless Idle, Processor Power Management, Battery Life Toolkit, Power
> Policy Manager, Power QoS, Display and Graphics Power Savings, Device
> and Bus Power Management, ACPICA) how many are currently packages for
> Fedora? What are they called? How are they identified? Do they belong in
> any particular software group? Some are kernel patches so are they in
> any existing Fedora kernel?

It's an interesting initiative, but is it helping the AMD64 people? I
expect some measures help, regardless of architecture, but definitely
not all, and powertop seems overly dedicated to intel hardware!

Is there any similar tools for AMD64 architectures?

Hugs,
Rui

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