Any Interest in Load-Adaptive Power Daemon?

[Patrick Hurrelmann]

Jeffrey Katcher wrote:
> I've been using an IBM T40 that I love, but it has a very short life on
> batteries:
> something like 2:30, which is half of my previous Dell.  I'm presuming that
> this
> is a direct result of always running at max clock 1.6Ghz.  I've been doing a
> little better lately adjusting clock speed manually, but I'm thinking of
> writing
> a daemon that will do the job automatically.  It shouldn't take more than a day
> or
> so, but:
> 1) Does something like this already exist on FreeBSD?
> 2) Anyone else want it?  I'd like to donate it for FreeBSD inclusion if it 
> works well and any core person is interested.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jeff Katcher

that would be really great. i've read about something like that for 
linux but due to my missing skills regarding *nix i never had a closer look.

as i can not provide you with programming skills, i would be interested 
in testing and maybe translating ;)