Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix console handling during suspend/resume

Pavel Machek
2006-06-25T23:03:42Z

Hi!

> We're building the OLPC machine in which the wireless hardware is alive
> (and able to forward packets in the mesh) even with the machine STR.
> Even our ATest hardware supports this for wireless.

> Similarly for the screen; it can be "alive" while the machine is STR.
> The power savings are dramatic. the screen takes an ASIC we don't have
> back yet, so that we won't have until the next batch of boards. And
> with the Geode's UMA, all we should have to do on the console is save
> and restore the graphics registers, which should be very fast.

Actually, what you are doing is _not_ suspend-to-RAM. You are doing
(trying to do?) very advanced kind of runtime power management on PC
platform (that happens to use S3).

I hope we'll be able to do the same on regular notebooks some day...

Pavel
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