PowerTOP for FreeBSD ?

[Takanori Watanabe]

In message <20070515050404.GK49628 at obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au>, "Wilkinson, Ale
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>Any chance this will get ported to FreeBSD ?
>
>   "Intel is proud to announce the PowerTOP tool, a program that collects the
>    various pieces of information from your system and presents an overview of
> how
>    well your laptop is doing in terms of power savings. In addition, PowerTOP
> will
>    provide an indication of which tunables and software components are the biggest
>    offenders in slurping up your battery time. PowerTOP will update it's display
>    frequently so that you can directly see the impact of any changes you are
>    making."
>
>   [http://www.linuxpowertop.org/].

I think it is not so hard to port the tool itself, but it is not quite useful 
for FreeBSD now, because it is useful under linux kernel with NO_HZ option,
which is not implimented on FreeBSD.