Re: Common boot/shutdown issues with the latest 2.6.37 (Mostly Asus laptops)

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, January 31, 2011, Richard SchÃtz wrote:
> >> I'll compile a kernel with CONFIG_NO_HZ to see what happens but how do I
> >> disable cpuidle during boot? I've checked the kernel-parameters.txt but
> >> there's no cpuidle related boot parameter there.
> >
> > Booting with intel_idle.max_cstate=0 should do the trick.
> 
> intel_idle.max_cstate=0 causes a fallback to the acpi_idle driver. So it 
> does not disable the C-states directly.

What about not building the acpi_idle driver, then?

Rafael
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