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On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:07 +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > > Still no C2/C3 handling :-( > > > Uh, wasn't there a small, nice patch implementing this in bk-acpi a few > > > weeks ago? > > > *clicketyclick* Oh yes, > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4401 > > > states it was merged into bk-acpi-test on 2005-04-22. However, I can't find > > > it in current -mm any more... > > You're probably talking about the amd768 module. > No, I'm not. I'm talking about plain ACPI C-States. OK, in that case, good! > > I could use it, but I > > never got it working correctly, there is no actual power reduction. It > > may have to do with the fast (1000 Hz) 2.6 clock though, making it sleep > > in C2/C3 for only very short intervals. Also the selection for idle > > CPU's seems to be too simple. > > The ACPI C-State selection algorithm needs a major overhaul, that's true. The current C-state selection (as used on e.g. my laptop) is good enough for me. It was the idle selection of the amd768 module that was ehrm... suboptimal. I am holding my breath here ;-) (and watching the -mm commits). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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