On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:29 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > This is way too laid-back. We should be suspending and letting the DCON > > refresh the display within a few seconds of going idle. A minute is > > really a long time. > > let me clarify here; this is somewhat activity dependent. Ebook, Web, > Abiword, and text Chat are great cases for very aggressive suspend. But > of course games are likely not. The sugar shell itself may also have > different heuristics.
Sure, so we need a way to convey state and application to the power manager. Maybe just setting a auto_suspend.mode key, with AGGRESSIVE, IDLE, and NEVER values? > We will have Wake On LAN functionality too so that, for example, if > we're chatting with somebody, we can suspend the CPU and do DCON refresh > when idle, and then get woken up when the other person sends an IM. That's pretty cool. Richard. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
