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

[Eric Piel <Eric.Piel-VkQ1JFuSMpfAbQlEx87xDw@public.gmane.org>]

Bruno Ducrot a écrit :
> 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?

Actually in the DSDT the C2 seems really deactivated (latency is set to 
the maximum, something like 999 ms) while C3 has a declared latency that 
seems realistic. Additionally, in the C3 state, the computer works 
perfectly.

Is there anyway in Windows to check if it uses a particular C state?

Eric


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