From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [BKPATCH] ACPI for 2.6 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:42:48 +0100 Message-ID: <20041112174248.GA4267@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <1099986428.6090.53.camel@d845pe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1099986428.6090.53.camel@d845pe> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List , ACPI Developers List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > (04/11/05 1.1803.163.1) > [ACPI] Allow limiting idle C-States. > > Useful to workaround C3 ipw2100 packet loss, > reducing noise or boot issues on some models. > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3549 > > For static processor driver, boot cmdline: > processor.acpi_cstate_limit=2 You certainly win "ugliest parameter of the month" contest :-). What about processor.max_cstate= or something? > (04/10/18 1.1803.119.24) > [ACPI] add module parameters: processor.c2=[0,1] processor.c3=[0,1] > to disable/enable C2 or C3 > blacklist entries for R40e and Medion 41700 So we have two independend ways to disable C states? Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms