On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Taceant Omnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am looking at ways to reduce power. I have the on-demand cpufreq
> governor. I am looking now at cpuidle.
>
> The AM335x Linux Power Management User Guide [1] says that there are
> two C-states however I can't find cpuidle on the BBB ([2]) running the
> [3] kernel.


debian@beaglebone:~$ ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/*
/sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel_max  /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
/sys/devices/system/cpu/offline     /sys/devices/system/cpu/present
/sys/devices/system/cpu/online      /sys/devices/system/cpu/uevent

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0:
cpufreq      crash_notes_size  online  subsystem  uevent
crash_notes  of_node           power   topology

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq:
ondemand

/sys/devices/system/cpu/power:
async                 runtime_active_kids  runtime_status
autosuspend_delay_ms  runtime_active_time  runtime_suspended_time
control               runtime_enabled      runtime_usage
debian@beaglebone:~$ uname -r
4.1.12-ti-r29

>
> Also I cannot find a Debian package to show cpuidle (the cpupower util
> is available on Fedora and Ubuntu but seemingly not in Debian).
>
> Any suggestions? I wonder if the kernel I am using is not built with cpuidle?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.1.12-ti-r29
sudo reboot

Regards,

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