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Offline caminati

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Re: Next kernel wishlist
« Reply #60 on: August 09, 2011, 09:03:37 AM »
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.

Offline nick65go

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Re: Next kernel wishlist
« Reply #61 on: August 20, 2011, 02:38:05 PM »
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.
« Last Edit: August 20, 2011, 03:04:01 PM by nick65go »