> but it appears to be just another variant
> on CPU idling.
The linux version only fiddles with a single bit in the northbridge that
is claimed to be necessary so the cpu goes into the "real" idle mode. It
also warns that some streaming applications might react to this with frame
drops or similar.
So :/
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