Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753790AbYGEPob (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:44:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751415AbYGEPoX (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:44:23 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.238]:34148 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750722AbYGEPoW (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:44:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=wE0Vzz+8UOBKvsiL6Ril4Pw+nnFHShjreRLAZt9B7VjBRbg6NEs+rI4X7xyxB+fMEn xv1sly/BbCrvZxTofkgS3kecsz+bV1sG4wLthCGGSbQA3o04jVIDrH65krfolyTNf7WG u4wXrmMTmofLiNepmCYIefHRYSnDUVrv/wyfY= Message-ID: <31e679430807050844r30ff74fby7e15641573b42d82@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:44:21 +0300 From: "Felipe Balbi" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Subject: Re: Battery life difference Cc: "Kernel development list" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080705082352.4b6be669@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <31e679430807050617u3fc706fasee9bb43a151c501f@mail.gmail.com> <20080705082352.4b6be669@infradead.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: fb225c1f0fd1349c Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 42 Hi, On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Which wireless is this? Same for graphics intel iwl4965 and intel mobile bm965/GL960 (graphics) > these don't give you all that much nowadays hmm... interesting :-) where should i look for more info ? Any pointers would be nice > There's a few things you can do to help stuff along; make sure you're > using AHCI. not loaded. Thanks > Also take a look at > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/8/1771024 because > these patches save like 0.75W in our lab. cool, is it merged upstream ? I'll build current git kernel and reply again with new linux results. It could be that ubuntu 2.6.24 is broken somehow... > To be honest, I'm surprised at your results; in our testing (with a > different distro though) we don't see such a difference and Linux is > doing rather well. can you get powertop results in a 2.6.24 distro kernel and current git kernel ? -- Best Regards, Felipe Balbi felipebalbi@users.sourceforge.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/