ACPI platform_profile support

[johns2s]

Support for native power profiles (low power/regular/performance, etc) is in kernel 5.12, facilitating an easy interface to native tools like GNOME's power profiles daemon. Lenovo is already making use of it. Are there any plans to support this?

[vchernin]

If Dell had already added support for power profiles, it’s possible power-profiles-daemon would be already capable of managing power profiles on Dell laptops. This article even says Dell was interested in doing so, so I hope this is followed up on.

I imagine it might make this utility and git repo somewhat redundant. But since power-profiles-daemon is included by default in Ubuntu 21.04 and very likely Fedora 35 it doesn’t make sense to have a separate utility just for Dell laptops.

See the LKML thread where power profiles was originally proposed. I believe there also is work on bringing power-profiles-daemon (one way or another) to KDE.