On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:03:20PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> It's likely that NetBSD uses the HLT instruction in the idle task to  
> reduce CPU power consumption; if you are talking about things like  
> PowerNow/SpeedStep-- AMD or Intel's capabilities (respectively) to  
> reduce the frequency that the CPU runs at if it is mostly idle, or  
> ACPI-based performance/throttling, I don't believe so.

Yes, I meant about ACPI-based throttling rather. That Linux module seems to
be using ACPI, AFAIK.

Of course, additional use of other available methods (PowerNow/SpeedStep)
could be a nice thing.
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						Zbigniew Baniewski