I've a comment about having SD turned off during suspend mode, how does this affect the users running OpenMoko from the SD-card rather than NAND?
Andy Green wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > >> If we want our phone has suspended mode, we must think about what >> peripheral device we need. >> >> Therefore, I list three power modes and show these peripheral devices’s >> status. >> >> This attached is just my first outlook and maybe has some faults. >> >> Can we talk about some questions in this mail loop? >> >> Do we need other power mode? Do any peripheral devices lack? >> >> After the discussion, we will do a complete form for these peripheral >> devices in some power mode. >> > > Hi Allen - > > This is a very good initiative you started. > > Some comments: > > - Some submodules have an internal state that determines their power > consumption while "on", ie, while we give them power. It is true for > WLAN and I guess it is true for GSM and Bluetooth. So "ON" doesn't > capture the situation in there because they can choose to run their > radios or not for example and that will be dozens of mA difference. > > - Particularly Sameo was asking what he should do with Suspend on WLAN. > I said that 99% of the time users do not want wake from WLAN, they want > long suspend battery life. But sometimes, if users want to wake on an > incoming VoIP call for example, they do need it and that should be an > application or user setting. > > - "Normal Mode" has everything "ON". But in truth usually the user > does not want to use every IO method at the same time. Maybe he didn't > have any Bluetooth peripheral or he does not like to run a GPS device. > So we should ultimately allow the user to select to not start support > for the devices we have power control for (it should be done as whether > the usermode /etc/init.d script is started or stopped). If he suddenly > wants GPS because he is lost, well he can enable it. The rest of the > time he gets better battery life. > > - -Andy > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHoyxEOjLpvpq7dMoRAmEWAKCVAx64oC7ZBUlLPkM6wG66H7UwVgCeIma1 > De/3dKj67rBlmfca6X151Mk= > =uj3M > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
