On Thursday 22 March 2007 4:29 pm, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, David Brownell wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 March 2007 3:10 pm, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > Well, I think the only clear distinction between the STR and "standby" is the > > > necessity to go through a boot-like procedure in order to resume from the > > > former. > > > > So what's a "boot-like procedure"? Ten instructions? A hundred? > > A thousand? Ten thousand? Does it take a certain amount of time? > > Does it perform certain operations? Does it involve going through > > ACPI (or APM)? If so, what about the fact that ACPI (or APM) are > > involved in "standby" resumes too (on platforms using them)? > > Ok, on ARM / (at least embedded) ppc I would say - going through reset > vector / toggling reset pin. However, I would also say that it makes plenty of sense to talk about an STR state that doesn't involve such a reset. > Do these terms still make sense on hyper-threaded-cored-celled CPUs? "Reset", sure ... though there are lots of types of reset. And "boot-like procedure" is inherently vague though. - Dave _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
