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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:04:42 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:53:40PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Quoting Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>:
> > the system is idle.  So far, in all my Linux kernel experience, I've
> > yet to see a kernel where it's possible to stay in the idle thread
> > for more than half a second.  (The ARM kernels I run are always
> > configured with IDLE LED support, so I can _see_ when it gets kicked
> > out of the idle thread.)
> 
> I guess IDLE LED support is not in mainline kernel, is it?
> Where can I get it?

It's an ARM only thing, and it's in mainline kernels for ARM platforms
which have general purpose LEDs available.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core