From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Seamus <assembly@gofree.indigo.ie>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CPU throttling??
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:00:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030203170007.GA10090@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1044291313.17360.4.camel@taherias.sre.tcd.ie>
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:55:13PM +0000, Seamus wrote:
> Would it be possible to throttle cpu when machine is in idle mode in
> Linux? or is it purely a BIOS and motherboard functionality.
>
> As you know some modern laptops in order to save power, throttle cpu
> (lower the cpu clock cycles per sec) when in idle mode.
ACPI does this, CPUFreq does this, and if you're really lucky,
there are some APM implementations that do it.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-03 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-03 15:47 Joeri Belis
2003-02-03 16:55 ` CPU throttling?? Seamus
2003-02-03 17:00 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-02-03 17:04 ` Martin Hermanowski
2003-02-03 17:13 ` John Bradford
2003-02-03 18:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-03 19:02 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-03 19:09 ` Martin Hermanowski
2003-02-03 19:20 ` John Bradford
2003-02-04 14:12 ` Erik Mouw
2003-02-03 19:14 ` Matt Reppert
2003-02-03 19:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-04 14:34 ` Daniel Egger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-03 21:14 Grover, Andrew
2003-02-03 21:18 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-03 21:41 ` John Bradford
2003-02-03 22:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-03 22:31 ` Ville Herva
2003-02-04 10:22 ` Seamus
2003-02-04 10:31 ` John Bradford
2003-02-04 11:01 ` Seamus
2003-02-03 21:51 Grover, Andrew
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