Linux 6.10 Delivers AMD & Intel P-State Driver Updates To Refine Power Management
The ACPI and power management / thermal subsystem changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.10 kernel
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The ACPI and power management / thermal subsystem changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.10 kernel
Intel's power management lead Rafael Wysocki posted a set of patches recently for working out asymmetic CPU capacity on hybrid Core x86 systems.
As part of my Linux 6.9 benchmarking I've been trying out many hardware combinations and overall seeing nice performance out of this kernel that will debut as stable in the next 2~3 weeks.
The Power Profiles Daemon software under the UPower project has released version 0.21 which now is automatically battery-state aware for adjusting the CPU power/performance behavior depending upon whether your Linux laptop is connected to AC or battery power.
While Intel Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' has been working out well under Linux already -- especially with regards to the enticing integrated Arc Graphics -- with the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel it's looking even better for the CPU performance.