nice! but would it not be possible to let the gps poweroff and artificially "feed" it the last known sattelite positions? so that i can get a hot-start after suspend, without using more power?
anyway, thanks for your contribution! y On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Vladimir Koutny <[email protected]> wrote: >> i was thinking about this the other day. the gps has it's own >> processor, correct, and can act independently of the cpu? i'm >> wondering if it's possible for the gps to keep it's fix while the main >> cpu is in suspend. power usage will be higher than a full suspend, but >> the phone will have a fix as soon as it resumes. is there any reason >> why this can't happen? > > I wrote attached patch for this few days ago - it is against mwester's stable > kernel so probably still needs some tweaks for 2.6.28 series. > > Simply 'echo 1 > > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/keep_on_in_suspend' > and it will stay alive during suspend (echo 0 to turn it off - this is also > the > default). > > It also fixes a bug with re-enabling GPS on resume when it was on before > (keep_on_in_suspend=0). > > I'm going to split this into 2 patches and send it to devel soon. > > vlado > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
