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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:24:31 +0300
From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: John Miner <jminer74@post.com>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi default CPU scaling governor
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Hi,

On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 20:19:15 +0200
John Miner <jminer74@post.com> wrote:

> The default Alpine kernel for the Raspberry Pi images has the CPU
> scaling governor set to "powersave" which limits the maximum CPU
> frequency to 600MHz (the value at
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq) as the default
> config has CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE enabled.

It used to be this way in Alpine too. This likely got changed by
accident in commit ff478c74b2ec904371253c4977a16fe0643ec4d8 which made
the config base on upstream default config.

I personally would welcome this change. Would you be willing to submit
a patch / Merge Request about this?

Timo