PowerTop for FreeBSD?
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at linux.intel.com
Sat May 12 20:12:13 PDT 2007
Charlie Law wrote:
> I'm impressed by what I read of PowerTop. I've long tried to get my
> Linux battery performance equal to that of Windows, so I'm happy to see
> that some progress is being made.
>
> How about for FreeBSD? I managed to install and launch PowerTop on my
> FreeBSD system, but it didn't produce any info. PowerTop wanted me to
> "enable the CONFIG_TIMER_STATS kernel option". I couldn't find the
> equivalent in my FreeBSD kernel config file. Any suggestions? Thanks.
I'm not very familiar with FreeBSD's kernel; but unless their kernel
has an equivalent functionality of CONFIG_TIMER_STATS, porting
PowerTOP isn't going to be a useful exercise....
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