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/drivers/idle/Kconfig b/drivers/idle/Kconfig
index f15e90a..fb5c518 100644
--- a/drivers/idle/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/idle/Kconfig
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+config INTEL_IDLE
+ tristate "Cpuidle Driver for Intel Processors"
+ depends on CPU_IDLE
+ depends on X86
+ depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Enable intel_idle, a cpuidle driver that includes knowledge of
+ 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