Hi! > > > We're building the OLPC machine in which the wireless hardware is alive > > > (and able to forward packets in the mesh) even with the machine STR. > > > Even our ATest hardware supports this for wireless. > > > > > Similarly for the screen; it can be "alive" while the machine is STR. > > > The power savings are dramatic. the screen takes an ASIC we don't have > > > back yet, so that we won't have until the next batch of boards. And > > > with the Geode's UMA, all we should have to do on the console is save > > > and restore the graphics registers, which should be very fast. > > > > Actually, what you are doing is _not_ suspend-to-RAM. You are doing > > (trying to do?) very advanced kind of runtime power management on PC > > platform (that happens to use S3). > > I suppose it is a matter of definitions... However, the main CPU is in > fact going to be suspended to RAM; it's just that our wireless and > screen are able to run autonomously. Well, and keyboard ... so that machine "pretends" to be powered on, no? That is actually more similar to very deep CPU sleep... > > I hope we'll be able to do the same on regular notebooks some day... > > > > So do we. > > It is fun for Linux to be going first for once. > > If you want a board to play with, let me know, Pavel (and others)... > This is not mythological hardware, but stuff I can ship out immediately. > (though the video has to wait until the next revision of the board: > we're doing an asic for that, and won't have that chip for several more > months). I'm afraid I'd not force myself to use machine without display. I still need to get that dual-core home-server running... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
