* Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> [...]
>
> Our power consumption is worse than under other operating 
> systems is almost entirely because only one of our three GPU 
> drivers implements any kind of useful power management. [...]

... and because our CPU frequency and C state selection logic is 
doing pretty much the worst possible decisions (on x86 at 
least).

Regardless, you cannot possibly seriously suggest that because 
there's even greater suckage elsewhere for some workloads we 
should not even bother with improving the situation here.

Anyway, I agree with Alan that actual numbers matter.

Thanks,

        Ingo
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