Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:11:35 +0100 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Subject: Re: power management Message-ID: <200812171011.36220.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20081215152317.50e78aa4@gom.home> References: <20081215133957.4ef356ec@gom.home> <20081215231835.Y56482@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081215152317.50e78aa4@gom.home>
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On Tuesday 16 December 2008 00:23:17 prad wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:20:51 +0100 (CET) > > Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > IMHO it depends on hardware > > ya that makes sense at least from reading about different cpu state > descriptions here: > Everything You Need to Know About the CPU C-States Power Saving Modes > http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/611 > > where they talk about how different cpu's deal with things differently. > so since the os software can only use these features, possibly some > have optimized for some hardware, but possibly not for others. If you're interested in technical details, there's a November thread on -mobile that covers quite some ground: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2008-November/011188.html -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.
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