Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Custom power states for non-ACPI systems | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:57:16 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:03 -0800, Todd Poynor wrote: > Advertise custom sets of system power states for non-ACPI systems. > Currently, /sys/power/state shows and accepts a static set of choices > that are not necessarily meaningful on all platforms (for example, > suspend-to-disk is an option even on diskless embedded systems, and the > meaning of standby vs. suspend-to-mem is not well-defined on > non-ACPI-systems). This patch allows the platform to register power > states with meaningful names that correspond to the platform's > conventions (for example, "big sleep" and "deep sleep" on TI OMAP), and > only those states that make sense for the platform. > .../...
Note that I'd like to rework the whole notion of power states ultimately. Devices themselves need custom state if we want anything sane other than global system wide suspend.
Ben.
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