From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kenneth Chen" Subject: RE: add lowpower_idle sysctl Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:29:13 -0800 Sender: linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200403181829.i2IITEF10447@unix-os.sc.intel.com> References: <20040318090522.GC15526@dominikbrodowski.de> Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040318090522.GC15526@dominikbrodowski.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: 'Dominik Brodowski' Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , CPU Freq ML >>>>> Dominik Brodowski wrote on Thu, March 18, 2004 1:05 AM > I assume ia64 does idling using the ACPI processor.c driver? No, not really. > If so, couldn't writing to /proc/acpi/processor/./power be > an option? Not all platform has ACPI support, so going through ACPI isn't generic enough. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kenneth Chen" Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:29:13 +0000 Subject: RE: add lowpower_idle sysctl Message-Id: <200403181829.i2IITEF10447@unix-os.sc.intel.com> List-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040318090522.GC15526@dominikbrodowski.de> References: <200403180031.i2I0VQF02038@unix-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <200403180031.i2I0VQF02038@unix-os.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: 'Dominik Brodowski' Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , CPU Freq ML >>>>> Dominik Brodowski wrote on Thu, March 18, 2004 1:05 AM > I assume ia64 does idling using the ACPI processor.c driver? No, not really. > If so, couldn't writing to /proc/acpi/processor/./power be > an option? Not all platform has ACPI support, so going through ACPI isn't generic enough. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262880AbUCRS33 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:29:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262879AbUCRS33 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:29:29 -0500 Received: from fmr04.intel.com ([143.183.121.6]:54705 "EHLO caduceus.sc.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262876AbUCRS3X (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:29:23 -0500 Message-Id: <200403181829.i2IITEF10447@unix-os.sc.intel.com> From: "Kenneth Chen" To: "'Dominik Brodowski'" Cc: "Andrew Morton" , , "Linux Kernel" , "CPU Freq ML" Subject: RE: add lowpower_idle sysctl Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:29:13 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <20040318090522.GC15526@dominikbrodowski.de> Thread-Index: AcQMyDSUbmMYXggVSnWIaNwiCdFlWgATg1Dg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> Dominik Brodowski wrote on Thu, March 18, 2004 1:05 AM > I assume ia64 does idling using the ACPI processor.c driver? No, not really. > If so, couldn't writing to /proc/acpi/processor/./power be > an option? Not all platform has ACPI support, so going through ACPI isn't generic enough.