Re: community PM requirements/issues and PowerOP [Was: Re: So, what's the status on the recent patches here?]

Pavel Machek
2006-09-18T10:53:15Z

On Mon 2006-09-18 13:46:04, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 14:34 +0200, ext Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > OMAP1 hardware is easily had; an OSK, or a Nokia N770. The latter is
> > > battery powered already, without the hardware mods...
> >
> > Well, I already have zaurus, and nokia 770 is inferior AFAICT. So the
> > next one will be linux cellphone...
> >
> > (And IIRC zaurus lasts longer on batteries than 770 does... or at
> > least comparable. Maybe OMAP is more complex, but is it actually good
> > thing?)
>
> Wifi + Significantly higher resolution display tend to play a 'small'
> role in this.

640x480 display vs. 800x480 display does not sound like _that_ big
deal to me. You are right with wifi, that beasts eat 1W-or-so. (and it
would be great if someone implemented wifi power saving...)

Pavel
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