On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:34 PM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 18 April 2010 4:52:33 am Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > my new laptop has a core-i7 620m and I expected it to have support for
> > C3-state.
> > sysctl dev.cpu.0
> > dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
> > dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
> > dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
> > dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
> > dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
> > dev.cpu.0.freq: 149
> > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2667/25000 2533/23710 2399/22465 2266/21243
> > 2133/20027 1999/18852 1866/17700 1733/16571 1599/15478 1466/14395
> 1333/13334
> > 1199/12297 1049/10759 899/9222 749/7685 599/6148 449/4611 299/3074
> 149/1537
> > dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/3 C2/245
> > dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C2
> > dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 500us
> >
> > I've never seen it acutally use even C2. Are lower C-states not supported
> > yet for the core i7 cpus?
>
> I have used C3 on i7 CPUs.  I would check your BIOS options perhaps.  Note
> that in the BIOS what shows up as "C3" to ACPI may be called "C6/C7".
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>

Ok, thanks. I'll blame it on the bios then and hope that the next update
fixes those issues :)
I just hope that Lenovo ships an update soon.

andrnils
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