Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api.

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Fri May 07 2010 - 13:20:58 EST


On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 19:00 -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> Oh some SoC devices like omap hit retention or off modes in the idle loop.
> That brings down the idle consumption of a running system to minimal
> levels. It's basically the same as suspending the device in every idle loop.
>
> The system wakes up every few seconds or so, but that already provides
> battery life of over ten days or so on an idle system. Of course the
> wakeup latencies are in milliseconds then.

MSM doesn't have those power states unfortunately .. Your kind of
suggesting what I was suggesting in that we should suspend in idle. Your
hardware can do it easier tho since your have power states that are
equal to suspend.

Daniel

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