On Sat 2008-07-05 20:41:07, Felipe Balbi wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > you may also need to toggle your bios to enable AHCI btw > > > >> > >> > Also take a look at > >> > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/8/1771024 > >> > because these patches save like 0.75W in our lab. > >> > >> cool, is it merged upstream ? > >> I'll build current git kernel and reply again with new linux results. > >> It could be that ubuntu 2.6.24 is broken somehow... > >> > >> > To be honest, I'm surprised at your results; in our testing (with a > >> > different distro though) we don't see such a difference and Linux is > >> > doing rather well. > >> > >> can you get powertop results in a 2.6.24 distro kernel and current git > >> kernel ? > > > > most of my measurement machines are in the office ;( > > > > Anyway, also make sure you use the 0.11 version of powertop; we added > > some newer stuff into that version... > > Cool, now I'm using current linux 2.6.26-rc8 from git > b8a0b6ccf2ba2519ace65d782b41ee91bf3c3778 > > Now I'm reaching 9.8w consumption :-) Cool... how low can Windows go? -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
