On 7/26/2010 1:01 PM, Auke Kok wrote: > > All, > > I'm happy to announce the official release of powertop version 1.13! > > - http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ > - > http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/download/powertop-1.13.tar.gz > > There are a ton of changes in this release since the last public > release over a year ago. A summery is listed below (since v1.12). > > We're migrating away from using the SVN tree on google code. Please > use the git.moblin.org repository for checking out the latest code. In > the long run we'll migrate the git tree to gitorious.
In terms of features: * PowerTOP now supports Runtime Device Power Management, both in terms of enabling it via a suggestion as well as collecting statistics for it * PowerTOP now has support for reporting which application keeps the disk from powersaving mode (worth +/- 0.5W) * PowerTOP now has support for reporting AHCI Link power management statistics (worth 0.5W - 1W) * PowerTOP now supports the Audio power saving statistics so you can see if some app keeps your audio out of powersave (0.5W - 1W) * PowerTOP reports the use of "Turbo Mode" on Intel processors that support this (Core i7 and such) And fixes * We should have fixed all suggestions that previously didn't go away even though you hit the key to apply them * We don't turn on USB power management for USB input devices, they tend to break if you do * Be smarter about we report ethernet activity in the light of multiqueue networking * many translation updates * Recognize per cpu hpet in timer reporting * Various wifi power saving api changes/tweaks taken care of Removed * the "laptop mode" suggestion has been removed _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
