Re: [patch 0/3] AHCI Link Power Management

[Kristen Carlson Accardi]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:04:30 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > >> I'm not sure about this.  We need better PM framework to support 
> > >> powersaving in other controllers and some ahcis don't save much
> > >> when only link power management is used,
> > > 
> > > do you have data to support this?
> > 
> > Yeah, it was some Lenovo notebook.  Pavel is more familiar with the
> > hardware.  Pavel, what was the notebook which didn't save much power
> > with standard SATA power save but needed port to be completely turned off?
> 
> Thinkpad x60. Some one Kristen probably used while developing the
> patch :-).

Yes - that confirms my conclusion that the first patch just wasn't
done correctly - cause when I measure the power savings with a power
meter on the X60 with my patches I see ~ 1W.
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