Re: PPro power consumption while executing "hlt"

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Tue, 8 Apr 1997 23:22:54 +0200

> This is controlled by the "low power enable" bit in EBL_CR_POWERON
> (MSR 0x2a, bit 26). Your configuration probably has this set to 0.

is there any disadvantage (e.g. performace loss) setting this bit?
any reason why it shouldn't be always set?
would it be a good idea that Linux sets it at boot time ?

Harald

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