Commit d96f94c6 authored Feb 02, 2009 by Pallipadi, Venkatesh Committed by Len Brown Feb 07, 2009

ACPI: Enable bit 11 in _PDC to advertise hw coord

Bit 11 in intel PDC definitions is meant for OS capability to handle
hardware coordination of P-states. In Linux we have always supported
hwardware coordination of P-states. Just let the BIOSes know that we
support it, by setting this bit.

Some BIOSes use this bit to choose between hardware or software coordination
and without this change below, BIOSes switch to software coordination, which
is not very optimal in terms of power consumption and extra wakeups from idle.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

parent db1461ad

include/acpi/pdc_intel.h

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
		#define ACPI_PDC_SMP_T_SWCOORD (0x0080)
		#define ACPI_PDC_C_C1_FFH (0x0100)
		#define ACPI_PDC_C_C2C3_FFH (0x0200)
		#define ACPI_PDC_SMP_P_HWCOORD (0x0800)

		#define ACPI_PDC_EST_CAPABILITY_SMP (ACPI_PDC_SMP_C1PT \| \
		ACPI_PDC_C_C1_HALT \| \
		@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@
		#define ACPI_PDC_EST_CAPABILITY_SWSMP (ACPI_PDC_SMP_C1PT \| \
		ACPI_PDC_C_C1_HALT \| \
		ACPI_PDC_SMP_P_SWCOORD \| \
		ACPI_PDC_SMP_P_HWCOORD \| \
		ACPI_PDC_P_FFH)

		#define ACPI_PDC_C_CAPABILITY_SMP (ACPI_PDC_SMP_C2C3 \| \

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