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Author Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver
Michael Biebl

2006-10-29, 7:23 pm

Per Olofsson wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Per Olofsson <pelle@debian.org>
>
> * Package name : cpufreq-detect
> Version : 0.1
> Upstream Author : Per Olofsson <pelle@debian.org>
> * License : GPL
> programming Lang: shell
> Description : detect CPU frequency control driver
>
> This package will attempt to detect and load the appropriate CPU
> frequency control driver for your hardware. This is useful together
> with packages such as powernowd, which can dynamically adjust the CPU
> frequency in order to save power.
>
> You can download the package here:
> http://dsv.su.se/~pelle/tmp/cpufreq-detect/
>
> It is based on the detection code from Ubuntu's powernowd package.
>


Why do you want to make a separate package for such a tiny shell script?
The overhead is just two much.
I'd propose to include it into the powermgmt-base package.

Cheers,
Michael
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