Kirill thanks for the patch, but i am still worried about the power usage. Even if i put apmd in manual mode and setperf=0, my system sucks 9-9.5W, which means the patch will not do much in my situation since any benefit from the patch comes from setperf=0.
What could be taking so much power? CPUs are idling. I've tried switching to two cores with no help. I've confg'd a mostly driverless kernel and booted my system with all ports off that i could, which i'm assuming actually turns them off since i do notice a power shift. Still major power drain compared to Linux.
