Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2008 06:52:51 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: v2.6.26-rc7: Negative powertop values |
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:48:45 +0200 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > > [I assume you know that doing a software unplug you burn more power > > than by leaving the cpu idle] > > We should really fix that one day...
yeah but it's incredibly hard to get right (in the light of the bios constantly changing what our allowed C-states are)... and the best case is equal to just being idle.
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