Messages in this thread | | | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: A minimally power-aware driver treats all messages as SUSPEND? | Date | Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:57:24 -0700 |
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On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:14:15PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > With that I might have to do less on SUSPEND because some state might be > > preserved after the machine comes up again. > > The only hardware state guaranteed by ACPI is the contents of RAM. It's > valid for the platform to cut the power rails to everything else, so > from a driver point of view it's almost always equivalent to > hibernation.
Right. And moreover ... the way many drivers support suspend-to-RAM in that "minimally power-aware" sense is kind of brain-dead: they resume by resetting and re-initializing everything!! Which trashes any state that the hardware may have been preserving.
So, there's no no real difference between SUSPEND and HIBERNATE modes unless drivers do more than that bare minimum.
The more intelligent drivers will leverage hardware low power states, and be able to use one of potentially many "retention" modes. Those are the drivers which may well support wakeup events; issuing wakeups requiress the device to stay at least partially functional.
- Dave
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