cpu scaling questions

[David Nielsen]

man, 02 10 2006 kl. 20:02 +0100, skrev Richard Hughes:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:01 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > It's a bug, but it should be cosmetic only. It's on the TODO, but
> > there are a number of other issues in this code that need tackling
> > first before it gets clean enough to fix this properly.
> > FC6-update/FC7 stuff.
> 
> IIRC, SMP cores are scaled together (like Dave said).

It won't stay that way for ever though, AMDs next generation chips will
scale independantly and I assume Intel will be doing similar tricks. 

> On a related note, gnome-power-manager 2.17.1 can control the CPU
> scaling (and change policy based on AC and battery, idle or performance
> etc), although this is obviously going to have to wait until FC7.

Oh that sounds great, Richard you never fail to impress me

- David Nielsen