From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:00:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:00:29 -0400 Received: from islay.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de ([129.13.162.92]:58805 "EHLO mailout.plan9.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:00:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:00:23 +0200 From: To: Alan Cox Cc: Dieter =?utf-8?Q?N=C3=BCtzel?= , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: VCool - cool your Athlon/Duron during idle Message-ID: <20010826220023.G2994@cerebro.laendle> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Dieter =?utf-8?Q?N=C3=BCtzel?= , Linux Kernel List In-Reply-To: <20010826181315Z271401-760+6195@vger.kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux version 2.4.8-ac8 (root@cerebro) (gcc version 3.0.1) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 08:24:20PM +0100, Alan Cox 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 :/ -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@goof.com |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |