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From: <pcg@goof.com ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Dieter Nützel" <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>,
	"Linux Kernel List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VCool - cool your Athlon/Duron during idle
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:00:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010826220023.G2994@cerebro.laendle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010826181315Z271401-760+6195@vger.kernel.org> <E15b5W8-0002cC-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15b5W8-0002cC-00@the-village.bc.nu>

On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 08:24:20PM +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Well my German isnt that good,
   
the page is in english (at least the one you get while clicking on
linux, which is german and english alike, and gthe source code is rather
international ;)

> but it appears to be just another variant
> on CPU idling.

The linux version only fiddles with a single bit in the northbridge that
is claimed to be necessary so the cpu goes into the "real" idle mode. It
also warns that some streaming applications might react to this with frame
drops or similar.

So :/

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-26 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-26 18:09 Dieter Nützel
2001-08-26 19:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-26 20:00   ` Lehmann  [this message]
2001-08-26 22:40     ` Andreas Bombe
2001-08-26 20:25   ` Dieter Nützel
2001-08-26 23:00 ` Jan Niehusmann
2001-08-27 22:46   ` Pavel Machek
     [not found] <87pu9i7frm.fsf@psyche.kn-bremen.de>
2001-08-26 20:24 ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <87pu9i7frm.fsf@psyche.kn-bremen.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <E15b6Rz-0002hM-00@the-village.bc.nu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-08-27  6:55   ` Andi Kleen
2001-08-27  9:26 Grover, Andrew
2001-08-27  9:53 ` Jan Niehusmann
2001-08-27 11:48   ` Liakakis Kostas
2001-08-27 15:03     ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-08-27 18:23       ` Liakakis Kostas
2001-08-27 20:56         ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-27 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-27 12:16   ` Dieter Nützel
2001-08-27 20:17   ` Paul G. Allen
2001-09-02 22:28 ` Jan Niehusmann
2001-08-27 20:57 Grover, Andrew

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