Re: enabling powerd on RPi
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:53:12 UTC
On 28 Dec 2023, at 13:11, Mike Karels wrote: > I am looking at enabling powerd by default on the Raspberry Pi 4 and maybe > others. There is a bug from 2021 on the subject which has gotten some recent > discussion, https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=256836. Also, > problems come up from time to time about performance problems because people > don't know to enable powerd. It makes FreeBSD look much slower than Linux. > > The simplest action is to enable powerd by default on the arm64-aarch64-RPI > images. This would affect RPi 4 and variants, also RPI 3* and later RPi 2. > I enabled powerd on an RPi 3B+, and it seems to have no issues; it seems > to work. Does anyone know of a disadvantage of enabling powerd on RPI > images for all targets? The alternative would be to configure at the first > boot, although I'm not positive of a definitive way to identify the RPi > variants. Maybe just looking for a dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl node would > suffice. > > If no one objects, I will make changes to enable powerd on RPI snapshots > for 15-current, and we can see what happens. My change to enable powerd for all 64-bit Raspberry Pi systems using the arm64-aarch64-RPI image is in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43296. There is also a review that splits RPi4 from RPi3 (etc); it is https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43141. Comments welcome. Mike