Re: acpi_idle: Very idle Core i7 machine never enters C3

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue May 25 2010 - 08:39:25 EST


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:59:39PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:

> On some platforms like NHM-EX, I was told that it's a NOP,
> But I might be given wrong information at that time when I wrote that patch.
>
> IIRC, acpi spec just say it's optional..

Implementing it is optional, but the spec implies that it should be used
if it's present.

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