[PATCH v2] Add cpuidle support for at91

Albin Tonnerre albin.tonnerre at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 30 08:34:49 EDT 2009


[Moving the discussion to l-a-k at lists.infradead.org]

Salut Nicolas !

Thanks a lot for your answer.

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:15 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote :
> Works very well and allow to save some power. After quick measures, we
> run at 172mA at 12V instead of 190mA at 12V so ~2.06W and a saving of ~10% :

... and you haven't tried cpufreq yet :)

> nice job !
> This is of course in my test conditions.

> Just one precision: what is the difference, entering state0 with only
> the current cpu_do_idle() that is activated by default ?

Sorry, I don't get what you mean. Would you mind elaborating a bit?

Regards,
-- 
Albin Tonnerre, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development,
consulting, training and support.
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