Matthew Dillon wrote: > est is far prefered over the ACPI idle hook. The ACPI hook is a > disaster and frankly shouldn't be used.
Well ... I have here hacked together est module for core 2 CPU's (mainly work done by Michal Belczyk [1]) and the result is that although changing voltage has effect, changing frequency doesn't have any effect to power usage or heat. CPU is just slower. I havent digged deep into it yet, though ... [1] - http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/bugs/2007-04/msg00099.html -- Hasso Tepper
