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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:33:47 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c
Message-ID:  <200803170933.48212.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200803170901.m2H91hCC044632@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200803170901.m2H91hCC044632@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Monday 17 March 2008 05:01:43 am Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> phk         2008-03-17 09:01:43 UTC
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/cpufreq     est.c
>   Log:
>   Increase time we wait for things to settle to 1 millisecond,
>   10 microseconds is too short.
>
>   Always set the cpu to the highest frequency so that we get through
>   boot and don't handicap cpus where powerd(8) is not used.

Hmm, I actually consider this a feature when I'm not running powerd to use 
less battery.  I think we should only bump up the CPU on battery power when 
using powerd so that it can be lowered again to save battery power when the 
CPU is idle.

-- 
John Baldwin



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