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Idling ACPI idle

Posted Jun 3, 2010 7:40 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
Parent article: Idling ACPI idle

> In general, it makes sense to use hardware features directly in preference
> to BIOS solutions when we have the knowledge necessary to do so.

Then why where the CPU-specific cpufreq modules deprecated in favor of acpi-cpufreq?

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Idling ACPI idle

Posted Jun 3, 2010 10:00 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Len discusses that in his email.