Hi, On 13/02/12 22:24, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> I want to do some power usage tuning for my laptop, or at least gain > some insights into how my battery is spent. > I understand I need the powertop tool to do this, and I found that it > complains about some kernel config options. > > I found the _powertop kernel variants, which are probably what the tool needs. > > How are the _powertop kernels meant to be used? Presumably by setting boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_XXX_powertop; in configuration.nix. There was some inconclusive discussion about the powertop kernels here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00784.html If there is little overhead to the powertop kernel config compared to the default kernel config, then feel free to merge it into the default kernel config and get rid of the powertop kernels. -- Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
