[ltp] Re: partial success w/ radeon-patch on T41

Fionn Behrens linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:20:42 +0100


On 03.02.2005, 10:49 +0100 Konstantin Filtschew wrote:
> hi,
> 
> there is no need for [powernowd] anymore, because you have kernel based
> cpu clock adjustment, which [is] faster and easier to use.

- powernowd is able to ignore I/O wait load and niced processes
- powernowd can be configured to apply a little latency to scaling
  and scale along a sine-wave which avoids unnecessary split-second
  clock-switch operations

The on-demand module cant do all that right now.

br,
	Fionn
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