Re: Bug#587514: ITP: cpupowerd -- daemon for frequency and voltage control of AMD K8 CPUs with undervolting/overvolting capability

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:10:26PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 29 juin 2010 à 16:05 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit :
> > On 29/06/2010 16:00, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > What features does it have over existing packages?
> > 
> > And why not using ondemand? Is AMD support bad?
> 
> Well, some CPUs (like the L110) don’t support it with a stock kernel.
> 
> I haven’t checked whether the daemon relies on ACPI, but if it doesn’t,
> it’s a solution that allows to use states that aren’t normally
> available.
 
and to causes crashes and false bug reports for other packages, I expect.

Antti, if you insist on packaging this, please ensure that it does:
    echo 64 > /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
on startup.

Ben.

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