On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Thomas Daede bztdlinux@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/07/2017 05:04 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Powertop, maybe it ought to be a feature request for F27, and see if a bunch of bug reports happen during the beta *shrug*. I've used it on an ancient and new laptop, of different manufacture, and haven't had a problem. But of course if it puts e.g. USB bus to sleep and there's a bug preventing it from waking up when someone plugs a flash drive in, that'd be pretty annoying as default behavior if this is a possibility.
Powertop by itself doesn't set any tunables on boot
There is a systemd unit that runs powertop with --auto-tune
For stuff like framebuffer compression, the Intel driver only enables it on sufficiently new hardware where it's expected bugs are less likely. Maybe some similar heuristic could be used for setting default tunables, but I'm not sure what it would be without specific examples.
thermald seems to be something else entirely - it's for thermal throttling. This might prevent the thermal MCE's that pop up when my machine overheats, but as far as I can tell is an independent issue.
It does prevent the thermal MCE warnings on one of my laptops; seems to more aggressively throttle that machine while also maybe ramping up the fans sooner.