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  •  19 Jan 2009 15:07

Release Notes: Calculations were fixed for systems that vary in power draw proc information. Compilation with PIC was fixed. An EOF at input was fixed. The polling hint now refers to /dev/cdrom instead of /dev/scd0. mwait usage is displayed. The --version|-v option was added. A spelling error in tips was fixed.

  •  02 Nov 2007 02:59

Release Notes: Powertop now reports USB activity. Support for mac80211 based wireless powersaving and the newly reported interrupt events in 2.6.24-rc was added. Bluetooth inactivity detection was improved.

  •  28 Aug 2007 05:16

Release Notes: The suggestion to increase VM writeback timeout was added to enable INOTIFY in the kernel. Support for deferrable timers was added. A socket fd leak was fixed. An active hint was added to enable USB autosuspend on Fedora 7. A blue color is shown if the CPU is 25% busy or more to indicate that idle wakeups are no longer the primary power consumer. An option to allow automated collection of data was added.

  •  18 Jun 2007 16:04

Release Notes: This release shows P-states (frequencies). A suggestion to disable TV-out and to disable Wake-On-LAN for unused ethernet has been added.

  •  10 Jun 2007 04:35

Release Notes: The suggestion to rf_kill unused wireless interfaces was added. Killing "sealert" is proposed. Showing the laptop mode hint is avoided when on AC. Enabling noatime is suggested to save disk IO. Enabling SATA AHCI Link power management is suggested. Enabling the SMP Power Aware Scheduler is suggested.

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