On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:49 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <
devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On 30.06.2020 15:25, Ben Cotton wrote:
> Better thermal management and peak performance on Intel CPUs by
> including thermald in the default install.
Good, but thermald is absolutely useless without configs. Configs can be
extracted from DPTF ACPI tables only with *proprietary* dptfextract
utility.
Also Fedora cannot ship extracted by dptfextract configs due to their
legal status.
Something that needs to be cleared up here: thermald has existed for the
better part of a decade and long before dptfxtract existed. dptfxtract
exists to handle certain platforms that use DPTF Active. thermald supports
many, many more platforms than that without the need for any closed-source
tools. Additionally, with code that is queued in a thermald branch, we may
not need dptfxtract for any use cases soon.
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Jared Dominguez (he/him)
Laptop/Desktop Hardware Enablement Manager
RHEL Workstation Engineering