.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "APM_CPU_IDLE" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME apm_cpu_idle \- cpu idling for APM capable Linux .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp void apm_cpu_idle ( \fIvoid\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIvoid\fB\fR no arguments .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP .PP This is the idling function the kernel executes when APM is available. It tries to do BIOS powermanagement based on the average system idle time. Furthermore it calls the system default idle routine.