Re: [PATHC] Relaxed syntax for the processor PBLK length

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:59:17PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:29:31PM +0100, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:11:59PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote:
> > > Why? Actually this patch is especially designed to allow C3 state to be 
> > > used on my computer. This works for more than 6 months without any 
> > > appearent problem, is there anything I'm not aware of?
> > 
> > I thought some BIOS devellopers wanted to use a size for the
> > pblk of 5 just to not allow C3 (which correspond to the sixth io
> > register).
> > 
> > I'm not alone to think this.
> > 
> > Nate: FreeBSD allow only C2 in this case.  What do you think about this
> > report?
> > Do you have an example of some kind of malfunction when enabling C3?
> 
> IIRC my desktop has a pblk of 5, and enabling _C2_ causes random lockups.
> 

Does your desktop support throttling?

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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


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