[at91] Save power by disabling the processor clock when CPU is idle

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun May 2 18:34:24 EDT 2010


On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 10:10:29PM +0200, avictor.za at gmail.com wrote:
> > Disable the processor clock when the CPU is idle.
> >
> > This saves much more power than merely entering 'Wait for Interrupt' mode.
> > Since JTAG-debugging doesn't work when the processor clock is switched off,
> > make it conditional on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anders Larsen <al at alarsen.net>
> > Cc: Andrew Victor <avictor.za at gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Andrew Victor <linux at maxim.org.za>
> 
> Russell:  It is patch 6053/1 in the patch-system.

Ok, thanks.  Where do we stand wrt the other two patches (5966/1 and
5967/1) ?



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