On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 14:27 -0700, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Hi L0f4r0,
>
> Ben (or other team members), if you're reading this and are short on
> time, would you please skip to the question at the bottom and reply to
> it?
[...]
> So anyways, given that you have a new ultrabook with a powerful CPU, I
> think thermald is probably the best solution to try. You can read about
> how it combines many other methods and aims to solve the problems
> inherent to ultrabooks here (01.org is the Intel open source project):
>
> https://01.org/linux-thermal-daemon/documentation/introduction-thermal-daemon
>
> Ben (and team), is there any reason why thermald isn't part of
> task-laptop? If it solves L0f4r0's issue it might be worth adding it,
> and if it's true that laptops...these new ultrabooks...are being
> designed to require it (eg: insufficient cooling solution) then it would
> make sense to enable it for the general case that it purportedly solves.
If thermald doesn't require manual configuration, and its default
behaviour is reasonable on all laptops, then I think it should be added
to task-laptop. However, currently all tasks are arch-independent
packages while thermald is x86-only.
If thermald doesn't behave reasonably on some laptops, or if there's
some reason why tasksel should not build arch-dependent packages, we
would need to find some other way to get it installed by default on the
laptops where it's really needed.
Anyway, this should be discussed on the debian-boot list, which is the
maintainer address for tasksel.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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