Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756245AbYJXBki (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:40:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751806AbYJXBk3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:40:29 -0400 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.182]:40535 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750747AbYJXBk3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:40:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=SDCdc1swxu1qBWb3nSg0T/hs/rOiKIFDSwv7my4Ug/ZeN4GzTziR5+yfAMYphwc2x6 HhRBP44OGmMLNFB3UqR1xHeltBvSvi3H4ceoVaABPGAZNDi16mVr/vdNx8Eq3o/D9S0R rqBHgnNrA0BU6xhZ2FyUzb++CjDbbBk8TUGzQ= Message-ID: <43e72e890810231840t2b5dd812p50d2325a967e6d4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:40:27 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Zhang Yanmin" , "Shaohua Li" Subject: CONFIG_PCIEASPM needed for ASPM? Cc: Linux-Kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 19 I know, the question is silly right? I thought so too, but I started reviewing the code and noticed most of it is just setting up values in data structures for the kernel's awareness of capabilities, it also updates the state in case of BIOS foobar, and there is also clock retraining if possible to reduce latency. Is that it? Did I miss something or is it really possible for devices to be able to use L0s|L1 or L1 by just having a BIOS which does things correctly? That is can our devices be using ASPM without any OS interaction, without CONFIG_PCIEASPM enabled? Thanks, Luis -- 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/