Bug#607924: Power management

2011-02-20 Thread Phillip Susi
On 02/20/2011 02:02 AM, Rogério Brito wrote: Oh, dear: ,[ powernowd -d -v -v -v -n -l 10 ] I'm not sure why you posted this. I asked why a user space govornor works, but a kernel space one does not. You seem to have taken that as "how do you know the user space one works"? No, I am

Bug#607924: Power management

2011-02-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 19 2011, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 02/19/2011 09:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > >And even if p4-clockmod is fixed, there are other arches (read: PowerPC) > >where the same with p4-clockmod is true. > > I'm still wondering how p4-clockmod can be controlled with a > userspace governor, but not

Bug#607924: Power management

2011-02-19 Thread Phillip Susi
On 02/19/2011 09:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: And even if p4-clockmod is fixed, there are other arches (read: PowerPC) where the same with p4-clockmod is true. I'm still wondering how p4-clockmod can be controlled with a userspace governor, but not any of the kernel ones. Are you guessing abou

Bug#607924: Power management

2011-02-19 Thread Phillip Susi
On 02/18/2011 12:58 AM, Rogério Brito wrote: On Dec 16 2010, Phillip Susi wrote: Powernowd used to accomplish the same thing as ACPI P-states by directly manipulating the amd k8 cpu registers. No, it doesn't. It is just a userspace governor and, despite the name, it is not tied to AMD cpus.

Bug#607924: Power management

2011-02-19 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 19 2011, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 02/18/2011 12:58 AM, Rogério Brito wrote: > >I have some patches to the ondemand cpufreq regulator, but it will need a > >lot of fine tuning to make ondemand work (if at all). OTOH, using > >powernowd usually works OK for my computer. > > Can you be more sp

Bug#607924: Power management

2011-02-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 16 2010, Phillip Susi wrote: > Powernowd used to accomplish the same thing as ACPI P-states by > directly manipulating the amd k8 cpu registers. No, it doesn't. It is just a userspace governor and, despite the name, it is not tied to AMD cpus. > The kernel now has drivers to perform freque