Someone wrote in [personal profile] mjg59 2016-07-26 12:29 am (UTC)

Kernel 4.7 seems to do PC8 OK

Another data point, FWIW: vanilla kernel 4.7 seems to go to PC8 OK. I didn't see PC8 on 4.5 or 4.6.

Dell XPS 13 9350, 1.4.0 BIOS, Intel WiFi. The only change from kernel defaults is i915.enable_rc6=1.

Idle-ish system with normal processes running, screen on:

C2 (pc2) 18.5%
C3 (pc3) 0.3%
C6 (pc6) 2.5%
C7 (pc7) 0.0%
C8 (pc8) 36.6%
C9 (pc9) 0.0%
C10 (pc10) 0.0%

If I quit Firefox then PC8 goes up to around 50%.

Full PowerTOP bits: https://gist.github.com/projectgus/e79923530392517c4e55064bb07b778d

(On the offchance anyone sees this and decides to buy an XPS 13 on this basis - it's still been a trip back to running Linux 10-15 years ago. I get random hard locks coming out of suspend, screen flickers when the laptop gets hot, glitchy touchpad driver, USB Type C is WIP, etc. Have spent way too much time compiling kernels and trawling forums. I wish I'd done my homework beforehand instead of thinking "well, Dell ships Linux on it from factory. How bad can it be?")

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