intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors

This EXPERIMENTAL driver supersedes acpi_idle on
Intel Atom Processors, Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Processors
and associated Intel Xeon processors.

It does not support the Intel Core2 processor or earlier.

For kernels configured with ACPI, CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=y
allows intel_idle to probe before the ACPI processor driver.
Booting with "intel_idle.max_cstate=0" disables intel_idle
and the system will fall back on ACPI's "acpi_idle".

Typical Linux distributions load ACPI processor module early,
making CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=m not easily useful on ACPI platforms.

intel_idle probes all processors at module_init time.
Processors that are hot-added later will be limited
to using C1 in idle.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

drivers/idle/Kconfig

@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+config INTEL_IDLE
+	tristate "Cpuidle Driver for Intel Processors"
+	depends on CPU_IDLE
+	depends on X86
+	depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+	help
+	  Enable intel_idle, a cpuidle driver that includes knowledge of
+	  native Intel hardware idle features.  The acpi_idle driver
+	  can be configured at the same time, in order to handle
+	  processors intel_idle does not support.
 
 menu "Memory power savings"
 depends on X86_64