On Sat, 29 May 2010 02:42:35 +0300 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ext Brian Swetland wrote: > >> How is it flawed? Serious question. > > > > I would avoid repeating all the good arguments given so far, but to make it > > short: > > > > * I believe runtime PM is a much better starting point (at least for the > > type of HW targeted at mobile devices) because it mimics an always-on system > > toward userspace, which requires less disruption in the way apps are > > designed > > I agree. > > If I understand correctly, if we have a perfect user-space that only > does work when strictly needed and trying to do it in bursts, then we > would be reaching the lowest power state, and there would be no need > for suspend. The problem is that Android's user-space is pretty far > from that, so they said "let's segregate user-space and go to lower > power mode anyway". This has already been mentioned (who knew?): Android doesn't want to depend on userspace for this. Cheers, Flo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
