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

Pavel Machek
2006-09-17T13:18:31Z

Hi!

> > > >> from aside, it looks like you're choosing 'rules' and assign then
> > > >> 'priorities' in a too arbitrary way which is by a strange accident
> > > >> fits your point of view best of all.
> > > >> May I remind you that Linux world is not only laptops and Sharp Zaurus?
> > > >;)
> > > >
> > > >Actually, laptops and zauruses seem to be the only "interesting"
> > > >machines from pm perspective. Then there are Motorola cellphones, but
> > > >Motorola tried hard not to enable users changing kernel... so they are
> > > >irrelevant.
> > >
> > > Well, I never said Zaurus was no good :)
> > > Please don't forget about Nokia 770 and its possible follow-ups.
> >
> > Well, for now, Nokia 770 is zaurus with wifi but without keyboard
> > (mostly). It seems to be very similar to zaurus pm-wise.
>
> You have conveniently chosen to forget that Nokia 770 does not support
> suspend-to-disk - it is a S-T-R device. In fact, personally I agree with
> Linus' comments elsewhere about S-T-D being irrelevant.

Now I do not understand... this was power savings debate, no? Zaurus
basically does not support S-T-D either (or at least I do not use it
there), and I agree that S-T-D is irrelevant in the long term. And it
is hardly relevant for non-PC machines _now_.

Pavel

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