Re: [PATCH] amd76x_pm: C3 powersaving for AMD K7

[Joerg Sommrey]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:11:36PM -0500, Brown, Len wrote:
>  
> >>  This patch can also be found at
> >>  http://www.sommrey.de/amd76x_pm/amd76x_pm-2.6.15-4.patch
> >> 
> >>  In this version more locking was added to make sure all or 
> >>  no CPU enter C3 mode.
> >> 
> >>  Signed-off-by: Joerg Sommrey <jo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Thanks.  I'll merge this into -mm and shall plague the ACPI 
> >guys with it. 
> >They have said discouraging things about board-specific drivers in the
> >past.  We shall see.
> 
> Linux/ACPI has had generic supported SMP deep (> C1) C-states
> for a few months now and AFAIK it is working fine.
> Why is a platform specific driver needed for these boards?

I didn't get the ACPI C3 states working.

-jo

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