On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Rob van der Heij wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > For an x86 hypervisor you'd probably use the APM interface to do this.
> > On modern x86 "hlt" also doesn't save power.
>
> I looked into the APM stuff in Linux for a generic way to let Linux
> tell VM it does not need resources allocated now, but did not like
> what I saw. From what I can tell the wake-up from suspend state is
> keyboard or mouse, which does not apply well to servers. The other
> one is WOL but I fear the delay for starting would be heavy.
> Is there anything generic for the idle Linux lowering the clock
> speed or so that could be implemented for S/390 ?


I would have thought it better to look at ACPI, which is supposed to
replace APM.



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Cheers
John.

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