Hi Bill. On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 10:46 -0700, bill holler wrote: > > c-states (power states) which stop a cpu (hlt) when there is no work. > > You can't observe c-states using kstat. use powertop. c0 is running; > > c1 is stopped. > > The cpu_info kstat now has cstate info fields current_cstate > and supported_max_cstates. This netbook will not have > additional OS controlled C-states. > > Your netbook may have C1E? C1E is BIOS/SMI controlled > C2 and C3 c-states. We plan to support C1E in Solaris soon. > There may be a BIOS option to enable C1E.
My BIOS seems to embrace minimalism. :-) If not finding C1E in my BIOS means that I don't have it, then I don't have it. Thanks for the info/help! --joanie
