Next kernel wishlist

[caminati]

It would increase the kernel size, for a small minority of users. It's a tradeoff that's not worth it right now, in my opinion.

I see, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

[nick65go]

it would be very nice if all good tricks from powertop 1.13 would be implemented, (i know was talked before)
also two killer setting i use for greatest power savings:

echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile for latest radeon(ATI) Xorg driver => finally makes my fan to be quiet, a solution long waiting from 2009 when catalyst drv was not used by me.

grub line, kernel parameter pcie_aspm=force was found as the solution to kernel bug of the power regression (on phoronix site),

Edit: used 64 bits of kernel 3.0.3, Xorg 1.10.4 RC1, radeon  6.14.2 in archlinux
with acpi-cpufreq and ondemand kernel modules. powertop shows the improvements; sometimes as low as 10-15 wake ups per seconds.