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* AMD Cool'n'Quiet
@ 2004-02-02  3:00 Richard Smith
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From: Richard Smith @ 2004-02-02  3:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f

If I buy an AMD Athlon 64 CPU and an appropriate motherboard, will the
Cool'n'Quiet feature work on Linux?  (This throttles down the CPU to
reduce power consumption when idle.)  I know Windows requires special
drivers.  Is it handled by ACPI on Linux?

-- 
Richard



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* Re: AMD Cool'n'Quiet
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@ 2004-02-02 10:08   ` Andi Kleen
  2004-02-02 11:42   ` Ducrot Bruno
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From: Andi Kleen @ 2004-02-02 10:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Richard Smith; +Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 03:00:31 +0000 (GMT)
Richard Smith <spam_if_you_want_to-/E1597aS9LT10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> If I buy an AMD Athlon 64 CPU and an appropriate motherboard, will the
> Cool'n'Quiet feature work on Linux?  (This throttles down the CPU to
> reduce power consumption when idle.)  I know Windows requires special
> drivers.  Is it handled by ACPI on Linux?

It's handled by an own cpufreq driver (powernow-k8) independent of ACPI 
and works. However it requires a correct PST table from the BIOS, which is often
not there. You also need to run cpufreqd.

-Andi


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* Re: AMD Cool'n'Quiet
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  2004-02-02 10:08   ` Andi Kleen
@ 2004-02-02 11:42   ` Ducrot Bruno
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From: Ducrot Bruno @ 2004-02-02 11:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Richard Smith; +Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:00:31AM +0000, Richard Smith wrote:
> If I buy an AMD Athlon 64 CPU and an appropriate motherboard, will the
> Cool'n'Quiet feature work on Linux?  (This throttles down the CPU to
> reduce power consumption when idle.)  I know Windows requires special
> drivers.  Is it handled by ACPI on Linux?
> 

This work with CPUFreq (there is also effort in order to retrieve
configuration from ACPI).

Cheers,

-- 
Ducrot Bruno

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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