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Subject: Re: proposal: set default lid state to S3, performance/economy Cx
 states to Cmax
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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On 4 May 2014 17:53, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2014, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> The easy-to-run test is "sysctl dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest=Cmax" and then use
>> stuff.
>
>
> It's that "use stuff" step that would preferably be automated.  Is the
> failure mode a lockup, or could a program detect problems?  The idea is to
> get lots of feedback, fast.

The lack of a general test suite is a bigger problem. :-)


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