Subject: Bug#670779: powertop: cpuidle support on ARM

From: Shawn Landden <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:29:24 -0700

Package: powertop
Version: 1.97-2em1
Severity: wishlist

The "Idle stats" and "Frequency stats" page are empty on ARM

it would be nice if this package had ARM suppot

would it just take turning on the PPC patches for ARM? (little endian of course)
# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver 
kirkwood_idle
# ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state0
desc  disable  latency  name  power  time  usage
# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state0/usage 
3941015
# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state1/usage 
470640

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable-grip
  APT policy: (200, 'unstable-grip'), (101, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-rc4-tomoyo-00002-gf203d42 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages powertop depends on:
ii  libc6         2.13-30em1
ii  libgcc1       1:4.7.0-4em1
ii  libncursesw5  5.9-6em1
ii  libnl2        2.0-1em1
ii  libpci3       1:3.1.9-2em1
ii  libstdc++6    4.7.0-4em1
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.6.dfsg-2em1

powertop recommends no packages.

powertop suggests no packages.

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