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The cpuidle subsystemThe cpuidle subsystemPosted Apr 28, 2010 12:16 UTC (Wed) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)In reply to: The cpuidle subsystem by nye Parent article: The cpuidle subsystem
Many desktop CPUs do support it. Your BIOS might not. Your particular CPU might not (or might be buggy and the BIOS went ahead and disabled it for safety). But it is not a rare feature in desktop CPUs anymore.
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The cpuidle subsystem Posted Apr 28, 2010 14:11 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
Is there anywhere a list of supporting processors? I was hoping that a site like lesswatts.org might have that sort of thing, but I couldn't find that information anywhere short of downloading the datasheets for every individual CPU, and of course there are a near-infinite selection of CPUs on offer nowadays.
However, if even brand new all-in-one Atom systems don't support this - given that they're targetted specifically at low-power uses - it doesn't seem to be a stretch to conclude that this is something that manufacturers basically don't care about.
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