From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: Re: standby to disk transition Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:55:00 +1000 Message-ID: <200603132355.08318.nigel@suspend2.net> References: <20060313083037.GA3495@elf.ucw.cz> <20060313084811.GC20569@neo.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============53012128382210277==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060313084811.GC20569@neo.rr.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org Cc: linux-pm@osdl.org, "Victor Porton, , , " , Pavel Machek List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org --===============53012128382210277== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1473316.NT34QdfbFH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1473316.NT34QdfbFH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi. On Monday 13 March 2006 18:48, Adam Belay wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:30:38AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Po 13-03-06 07:34:36, Victor Porton,,, wrote: > > > There should be something such which would cause (after user > > > specified timeout, e.g. a hour) automatically switch the > > > system from standby to suspend to disk (or suspend to mem). > > > > .... > > > > > Or as a possible alternative, we could suspend SIMULTANEOUSLY > > > to disk and to mem (with switching into suspend-to-disk by > > > timeout), to have both quick restoration and automatically > > > fully turning it off. > > > > Yep, it would be nice. > > > > Does that mean you are working on it and will send me a patch? Do you > > want help coding? > > Pavel > > The simultaneous idea sounds very similar to the idea Nigel had around a > year ago. It may have been implemented to some degree. Yes, it's been implemented for ages, and works fine. > The timeout feature could be done using the ACPI alarm interface, but > there's no reliable way of knowing how long the system can remain in a > suspend state on the x86 mobile platform, so waking up at the right time > would be tricky if not impossible. I'd like this too. I think, though, that the interval should be configurabl= e.=20 No one knows how long a battery will last better than the person who owns t= he=20 laptop and has learnt from experience that on this computer 4% is where the= =20 computer switches off but on the other computer, you can run it down to 2%. Regards, Nigel =2D-=20 See our web page for Howtos, FAQs, the Wiki and mailing list info. http://www.suspend2.net IRC: #suspend2 on Freenode --nextPart1473316.NT34QdfbFH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEFXm8N0y+n1M3mo0RAojyAJ43scof5uMylpKTH7IBEOxBHVSnMwCffz0i vyqdxGiSA5FjB4vZApRr6Sk= =RTcg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1473316.NT34QdfbFH-- --===============53012128382210277== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --===============53012128382210277==--