On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:57:57 -0500 Richard Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just saw this thread online from someone else who was having > problems with an HP laptop -- I believe my laptop falls into this > category. > > The laptop is currently running Fedora Core 8, but I couldn't figure > out what kernel that diff was against. I'm not experienced with > git. Can you give me a few pointers on how to get that patch applied > to a kernel tarball? I'll be more than willing to be your test > subject to see how well this patch and whatever future revision of it > may work. > > Richard Hi, I'll assume you didn't read the thread careful enough, so I have to emphasize the fact that this patch won't improve power savings (even more, it may actually consume an additional 1-2 Watts). Try it only if you need dynticks for another purpose than just saving power (in which case, you should wait until a better solution comes up, namely LAPIC-less dynticks). IIRC, the diff was made against 2.6.24-rc4, but it applies okay on the latest -rc (2.6.24-rc6 as of now) as far as I can see. Copy starting with the line below "---" all the way to the end and save it to a file (make sure tabs don't get messed up), then apply with "patch -p1" as you would apply any other patch. Run "make xconfig" (or whatever interface to Kconfig you use), make sure "Processor type and features -> Disable C1E on AMD systems to make dynticks work" is set, along with all other relevant options, then build and the kernel as usual. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
