[ltp] ACPI & APM Confused

Franz Rühmland linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 01 Mar 2004 19:57:19 +0100


Daniel Jimenez wrote:
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> Franz Rühmland wrote:
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>> Well, One killer feature I believe in ACPI is C3 power mode for the CPU.
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> What is C3?
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It's a power saving state the CPU can be put in when idle. There are 
C0-C3 where C0 is the full "working state". For more info: 
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/processor.html