On Jul 8, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> acpi_cpu.c has a block of code to write CST_CNT to SMI_CMD, but the block is
> under #ifdef notyet.  It seems that the code was added that many years ago and
> never enabled.
> Now, judging from the reports I've seen on this mailing list, it appears that
> _CST changes do happen and the driver seem to handle them sufficiently well.
> I think that a lot of modern platforms do not even provide CST_CNT and assume
> that an OS is able to handle C-state change notifications.
> So, I guess that it should be safe to enable the code in question now.
> 
> Could anyone with a FreeBSD laptop and non-zero CST_CNT in FADT please test 
> this?

It was only under an #ifdef because at the time our CST implementation couldn't 
handle CST changes cleanly. I had added some support for it, but since it 
couldn't be tested, I wasn't sure how actual hardware would behave.

I think it's fine to enable now. I think 2007-era Thinkpads were some of the 
first to add this feature.

-Nate

_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"

Reply via email to