Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:10:51 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] amd76x_pm: C3 powersaving for AMD K7 |
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On Fri 03-02-06 17:59:38, Juhani Rautiainen wrote: > On 2/3/06, Brown, Len <len.brown@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > Certainly the BIOS writer also had access to that document, plus > > documents we do not see, yet they decided NOT to enable C2/C3. > > This comes from AMD-768 reveision guide. In product errata there there > is errata number > 24 which seems to suggest that you can't enable POS, C2 or C3 states > in single processor > environments. This at the end of errata: > ----- snip ---- > This workaround will not work for awaking from the C2/C3 state, since > the operating > system has full control.
As far as I read this: they suggest to disable it in BIOS because workaround is needed during wakeup and Windows do not have that workaround. IOW the patch is safe, as long as workaround is included. Good. Pavel
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