[Debian-eeepc-devel] [Acpi4asus-user] SHE over/underclocking on demand (not on AC)

[Corentin Chary]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Trent W. Buck <twb at cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> [Per Ben's suggestion, (hopefully) cross-posted to the eeepc_laptop list.]
>
> Trent W. Buck writes:
>
>> SHE is an over/underclocking mechanism in recent Eee PCs.  Out of the
>> box, eeepc-acpi-scripts supports an SHE mode "automatic", which will
>> underclock when on battery and overclock when on AC.
>>
>> It seems to me that it'd be preferable to underclock on low loads and
>> overclock on high loads.  That is, the same behaviour as the "ondemand"
>> and "conservative" governors provide for cpufreq P-states.
>>
>> Is this possible (without resorting to a userspace daemon)?
>> If not, where should I file the wishlist bug?
>

There no cpufreq driver using SHE ATM. I could add one into
eeepc-laptop (and eeepc-wmi ?),
but the problem is that you can use only one cpufreq, and I think some
eeepc (atom based)
already have a specific cpufreq driver.

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