Thanks.
I have put Andreas's idle patch, Russell King's notification patch,
and a combined patch up at:
http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/apm.html
-- Thomas HoodOn Sat, 2001-12-22 at 09:44, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > Hi, > I merged 2., 3. and 4. (attached) with some modifications. > > 1. There is now a module parameter apm-idle-threshold which allows to override > the compiled in idle percentage threshold above which BIOS idle calls are > done. > > 2. I modified Andrej's mechanism to detect a defunct BIOS (stating 'does stop > CPU' when it actually doesn't) to take into account that there's other > interrupts than the timer interrupt that could reactivate the cpu. > As there's 16 hardware interrupts on x86 (apm is arch specific anyway) I do > use a leaky bucket counter for a maximum of 16 idle rounds until jiffies is > increased. When the counter reaches zero it stays at this value and the > system idle routine is called. If BIOS idle is a noop then the counter > reaches zero fast, thus effectively halting the cpu. > > Andrej, could you please test the patch if it works for your laptop?
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