RE: [PATCH] amd76x_pm: C3 powersaving for AMD K7

[Brown, Len]

>>  This patch can also be found at
>>  http://www.sommrey.de/amd76x_pm/amd76x_pm-2.6.15-4.patch
>> 
>>  In this version more locking was added to make sure all or 
>>  no CPU enter C3 mode.
>> 
>>  Signed-off-by: Joerg Sommrey <jo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Thanks.  I'll merge this into -mm and shall plague the ACPI 
>guys with it. 
>They have said discouraging things about board-specific drivers in the
>past.  We shall see.

Linux/ACPI has had generic supported SMP deep (> C1) C-states
for a few months now and AFAIK it is working fine.
Why is a platform specific driver needed for these boards?

-Len
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