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Everything You Need to Know
About the CPU C-States Power Saving Modes
By Gabriel Torres
on September 5, 2008
Introduction
In order to save energy when the CPU is idle, the CPU can be
commanded to enter a low-power mode. Ea
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How Linux suspend and resume works in the ACPI age
Posted 7 Feb 2007 at 11:16 UTC by mjg59
Back in the APM days, everything was easy. You called an ioctl on
/dev/apm, and the kernel made a BIOS call. After that, it was all up to
the hardware. Sure,
