* Chuck Swiger:
> 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.

It does, at least in -current and 4.0beta2, but other OSes also support the
ACPI C-states. I don't think we do.

-- 
Martijn van Buul - pino@dohd.org