On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 4:09 PM Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:21 AM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ThermalManagementWS
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> == Summary ==
> Better thermal management and peak performance on Intel CPUs by
> including thermald in the default install.
> Install the packages and use e.g. turbostat to monitor the
> performance. Improvements may only be visible if the non-free
> dptfxtract package is also installed.
>
So, looking at the license of that tool, it seems to be fine to
redistribute it unmodified... so what if we wrote a tool that would
run the `acpidump` and `acpixtract` locally, submit it to a very
simple web service and get back the config file for their system? We
Privacy alert :)
I'd rather we ship the database in the RPM (or a dedicated
sub-package) and let the match happen locally.
Dridi