Joe Harvell wrote:
I am trying to enable all the power saving features I can on my Conroe
E6600. After much searching on the web, I am a little confused about
the Linux kernel support for ACPI on the Conroe.
Here is my setup:
Intel Core2 Duo E6600
Asus P5-B Deluxe board (Intel P965).
I am running a Gentoo kernel based on 2.6.19.4.
I have managed to enable EIST using cpufreq with the speedstep-centrino
driver. But my understanding from browsing the ACPI spec is that this
is still within C0, i.e. not much power savings.
C-states are something else entirely, frequency scaling and C-states are
essentially independent. You can be in lower frequency and C1, C2, etc.
and it will still use less power.
Here are my questions:
1) For P states, which cpufreq driver should I be using? I've heard
speedstep-centrino is deprecated (but only some aspects of it) that are
Right.
being moved into acpi-cpufreq. But I can't get acpi-cpufreq to load in
my kernel version. Also, I would have thought speedstep-ich would be
Are you sure? Are you getting error messages?
the driver, just based on the name. How do I know (other than trying
No, that's only for some older chipsets.
all modules to see which one loads) which one I should be using?
That's the easiest way, and that's what Fedora does for example (just
compile all the drivers into the kernel). acpi-cpufreq should be the one
for all modern boards, however.
2) What kind of support for C1-C3 does the Conroe have? The ACPI spec
says C2 and C3 require chipset support on the motherboard. Does P965
have that. Does it matter between boards (e.g. P5B)?
The kernel will only use C2 and C3 if the motherboard exports support
for it through ACPI. Most desktop boards don't, this is normally only
found on laptops.
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