Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

Ted Ts'o
2010-08-17T15:25:01Z

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:53:51AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> however I think you're making an assumption that there is a
> real difference between a deep idle state and "off"....
>
> For modern x86 hardware, that assumption isn't really valid.
> (other than a very very small sram that stores register content in the
> idle case)

This is more of CPU statement than a chipset or laptop/device-wide
statement, correct?

If "hardware" applies to the entire laptop, how "modern" is "modern"?

- Ted