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Re: kapm-idled



Christopher SEKIYA wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:44:30PM +0900, B0Ti wrote:
> > It's sending HLT commands to the cpu. Read more about this at:
> Dumb design.  The kernel scheduler does that anyway.

But actually it does more than that. AFAIK it uses the apm bios also, so I
guess it should save more energy than just a plain HLT in the kernel scheduler.
Maybe I should put it back in the kernel too if I get longer battery life that
way.

So why do you say that the design is dumb, Chris?


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B0Ti.

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