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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2016-11-18 07:23:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2016-11-18 12:07:56 +0100 |
| commit | b65ce83f2a607ad478c5492812f5f218e8d57a6b (patch) | |
| tree | e935c3efcdda516d4a400aeedbcf5cd1f209ef2f /drivers/idle/Kconfig | |
| parent | Linux 4.9-rc5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b65ce83f2a607ad478c5492812f5f218e8d57a6b.tar.xz linux-b65ce83f2a607ad478c5492812f5f218e8d57a6b.zip | |
i7300_idle: Remove this driver
In preparation for removing the idle_notifier, remove its only user, the
i7300_idle driver.
i7300_idle was deployed in 2008 to reduce idle memory power on systems
using the i7300 chipset. The driver worked by throttling the
fully-buffered DIMMs during idle periods using the IOAT DMA engine.
The driver ran only on the i7300 chip-set, and no other hardware has used
this mechanism. The driver no longer has a maintainer.
Removing this driver will increase idle power on i7300 systems when they
run the new kernel without the driver.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ad6a044e57cc75f44cc8621abe846e58f7882243.1479449716.git.len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/idle/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/idle/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/idle/Kconfig b/drivers/idle/Kconfig index 4732dfc15447..55bcf803841e 100644 --- a/drivers/idle/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/idle/Kconfig @@ -8,20 +8,3 @@ config INTEL_IDLE native Intel hardware idle features. The acpi_idle driver can be configured at the same time, in order to handle processors intel_idle does not support. - -menu "Memory power savings" -depends on X86_64 - -config I7300_IDLE_IOAT_CHANNEL - bool - -config I7300_IDLE - tristate "Intel chipset idle memory power saving driver" - select I7300_IDLE_IOAT_CHANNEL - help - Enable memory power savings when idle with certain Intel server - chipsets. The chipset must have I/O AT support, such as the - Intel 7300. The power savings depends on the type and quantity of - DRAM devices. - -endmenu |