From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262298AbVHAH2m (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 03:28:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262997AbVHAH1I (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 03:27:08 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:24037 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262419AbVHAH0s (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 03:26:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:26:00 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: James Bruce , Lee Revell , Marc Ballarin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers Message-ID: <20050801072600.GM27580@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050730120645.77a33a34.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <1122746718.14769.4.camel@mindpipe> <20050730195116.GB9188@elf.ucw.cz> <1122753864.14769.18.camel@mindpipe> <20050730201049.GE2093@elf.ucw.cz> <42ED32D3.9070208@andrew.cmu.edu> <20050731211020.GB27433@elf.ucw.cz> <20050731220754.GE7362@voodoo> <20050731223616.GB27580@elf.ucw.cz> <20050801034940.GC24130@mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050801034940.GC24130@mail> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > If the kernel defaults are irrelevant, then it would make more sense to > > > leave the default HZ as 1000 and not to enable the cpufreq and ACPI in > > > order to keep with the principle of least surprise for people who do use > > > kernel.org kernels. > > > > Well, I'd say you want ACPI enabled. New machine do not even boot > > without that. Default config should be usefull; set ACPI off, and > > you'll not be able to even power machine down. > > And there are older machines that won't boot with it enabled. The machine > I'm typing this on has a really shitty ACPI implementation, I don't remember > the details because it's been so long but I know that I have to disable ACPI > for it to work right. If it was long ago, you probably want to try again and file a bug report if still broken. Pavel -- if you have sharp zaurus hardware you don't need... you know my address