On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:36:42PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 01:14:32AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > services in themselves (like system monitoring). It's really just > > semantics to treat them differently to something like a cellular modem - > > at a high level they're both just independant processors ticking away > > without the application processor. > I agree that a smartphone's cellular modem can be argued to be very > similar to wake-on-LAN. The smartphone applications that seem to me > to be very different from wake-on-LAN are things like audio playback, > where the system is providing service to the user during the time that > it is suspended. The cellular modem case includes not just hanging off the network but also being on a call - the voice path for a phone call doesn't need the CPU to do anything. It's probably best to view a phone as a bunch of interconnected systems that happen to sit in the same box, and there's various design decisions that can be taken about which systems own the shared components. _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
