Power-Mgt (Was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c )

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <47DED21C.4070108 at FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway writes:

>I think this is a great idea, but one of the big problems is probably 
>going to be dealing with hardware quirks.  e.g. we can't even enable 
>powerd by default because e.g. acpi_throttle hangs on some systems.  It 
>might be tricky to get power management to the stage where it works for 
>everyone and can be done automatically.

I'd expect that this will improve over time, just like all other
technologies from ISA to PCI bus implementations did.

But yes, it will take time & effort, but given the current
cleantech/greentech buzz, I think we'd better get moving.

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