New (for us :) power usage tricks

Sun Sep 7 15:03:06 PDT 2008

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:15:39AM +0300, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >     Very cool.  I'll have to find a machine to test it on.  My test
> > cubes only seem to have C1.
> 
> It's a laptop only (mobile chipset and stuff) thingie.

No, it isn't. It depends on chipset and cpu to be new enough, mostly.
All Intel CPUs with MONITOR support should be able to do C2 and most
newer PCI chipsets have support for C2 at least. Whether or not it can
be accessed via ACPI is a separate question.

Joerg