On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 03:20:21PM +0800, Ocean Spring wrote: > does anyone cross-compile powertop to make it work under any other > architecture, e.g. ARM processors or MIP?
make CC=arm-unknown-linux-gcc > and i want to know whether it is feasible to cross-compile powertop to other > architecture for power consumption measurement? Powertop needs ACPI for power estimates, so that won't work on platforms without ACPI. You can however get the wakeup information. > i just wonder the result generated by cross-compiled powertop on other > architecture would be same accurate as it is running on Intel/AMD PCs. Wakeup information should be as accurate. > i have some suggestions on powertop: > > 1) maybe it is possible for powertop to generate data which can be loaded in > Openoffice Calc or M$ Excel. > 2) maybe it is possible to generated some visual stuff directly from > powertop, some charts for example. Why? Once you have the data in a file, you can use any visualisation tool (gnuplot, OO Calc, or even Excel). > 3) maybe some powertopGUI can be created? What exactly should that GUI display that can't be done in the current text interface? Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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