intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors
This EXPERIMENTAL driver supersedes acpi_idle on
Intel Atom Processors, Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Processors
and associated Intel Xeon processors.
It does not support the Intel Core2 processor or earlier.
For kernels configured with ACPI, CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=y
allows intel_idle to probe before the ACPI processor driver.
Booting with "intel_idle.max_cstate=0" disables intel_idle
and the system will fall back on ACPI's "acpi_idle".
Typical Linux distributions load ACPI processor module early,
making CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=m not easily useful on ACPI platforms.
intel_idle probes all processors at module_init time.
Processors that are hot-added later will be limited
to using C1 in idle.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d329b05..276e79b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2850,6 +2850,13 @@
S: Maintained
F: drivers/input/
+INTEL IDLE DRIVER
+M: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
+L: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
+T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6.git
+S: Supported
+F: drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+
INTEL FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER (excluding 810 and 815)
M: Maik Broemme <mbroemme@plusserver.de>
L: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org