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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-03-08 22:07:30 +0300
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-05-28 22:26:20 +0400
commit2671717265ae6e720a9ba5f13fbec3a718983b65 (patch)
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parent02cf4f9808382af7265cafc33dc86ec5875526aa (diff)
downloadlinux-2671717265ae6e720a9ba5f13fbec3a718983b65.tar.xz
intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors
This EXPERIMENTAL driver supersedes acpi_idle on Intel Atom Processors, Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Processors and associated Intel Xeon processors. It does not support the Intel Core2 processor or earlier. For kernels configured with ACPI, CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=y allows intel_idle to probe before the ACPI processor driver. Booting with "intel_idle.max_cstate=0" disables intel_idle and the system will fall back on ACPI's "acpi_idle". Typical Linux distributions load ACPI processor module early, making CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=m not easily useful on ACPI platforms. intel_idle probes all processors at module_init time. Processors that are hot-added later will be limited to using C1 in idle. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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