diff --git a/powertop/.footprint b/powertop/.footprint
index 7c1d5b297..3a23bb944 100644
--- a/powertop/.footprint
+++ b/powertop/.footprint
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man8/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man8/powertop.8.gz
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/sbin/
 -rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/sbin/powertop
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/man/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/man/man8/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/man/man8/powertop.8.gz
diff --git a/powertop/.md5sum b/powertop/.md5sum
index 0ec201e54..f7e6a5818 100644
--- a/powertop/.md5sum
+++ b/powertop/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-e0d686e47daaf7e9d89031f7763432ef  powertop-2.7.tar.gz
-1e8b0f482158db57a87fcd6074d0b699  powertop-autotune.patch
+c55fedb69203e480801b18bd7b886241  powertop-2.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/powertop/Pkgfile b/powertop/Pkgfile
index cca9cd8f0..ee40a437f 100644
--- a/powertop/Pkgfile
+++ b/powertop/Pkgfile
@@ -5,23 +5,15 @@
 # Depends on:	ncurses libnl
 
 name=powertop
-version=2.7
+version=2.8
 release=1
-source=(
-https://01.org/sites/default/files/downloads/$name/$name-$version.tar.gz
-$name-autotune.patch
-)
+source=(https://01.org/sites/default/files/downloads/$name/$name-$version.tar.gz)
 
 build() {
 	cd $name-$version
 
-	# fix crash with --auto-tune:
-	# https://lists.01.org/pipermail/powertop/2014-December/001730.html
-	patch -p1 -i $SRC/$name-autotune.patch
-
 	./configure \
 		--prefix=/usr \
-		--mandir=/usr/man \
 		--disable-nls
 	make
 	make DESTDIR=$PKG install
diff --git a/powertop/powertop-autotune.patch b/powertop/powertop-autotune.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index dc0fbf479..000000000
--- a/powertop/powertop-autotune.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/src/devices/devfreq.cpp b/src/devices/devfreq.cpp
-index d2e56e3..4de5c9b 100644
---- a/src/devices/devfreq.cpp
-+++ b/src/devices/devfreq.cpp
-@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ void create_all_devfreq_devices(void)
-		fprintf(stderr, "Devfreq not enabled\n");
-		is_enabled = false;
-		closedir(dir);
-+		dir = NULL;
-		return;
-	}