From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Kenneth Chen" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:29:13 +0000
Subject: RE: add lowpower_idle sysctl
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To: 'Dominik Brodowski' <linux@dominikbrodowski.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, CPU Freq ML <cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk>

>>>>> 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.