Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-11 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
We shouldn't need to check whether there is network traffic when desiring to suspend. If no process has run in N milliseconds, the kernel should autosuspend. N should be tuned to avoid constantly suspending and then immediately reawakening, e.g. between packets in an active HTTP connection. Ar

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-11 Thread John Gilmore
> The first problem I see is that machines don't wake on ARP. > Ultimately I believe we don't want our machines to wake on ARP, we > really want firmware that can handle ARP and only wake when our > address is ARP'd. I don't know how unreasonable a request that is. It's completely reasonable, and

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-11 Thread John Gilmore
> waking up on all multicast frames, apparently even ones that wouldn't > normally be sent from the hardware to the driver There's a flag for that, "ifconfig wlan0 allmulti", which should NOT be set. That configuration tells the hardware that we want to receive all multicasts, not just the ones w

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] butiá robot challenges in sumo.uy event

2012-02-11 Thread Andres Aguirre
http://vimeo.com/33399708 Nice video of the sumo.uy 2011 event where childrens participated using olpc/sugar in sumo and in butia challenges. regards andres On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Steve Thomas wrote: > This is a great use of the XO.  So for comparison, how much would it cost > for an

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-11 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > wrote: >>> Looking for the happy middle ground that doesn't interfere with >>> collaboration. >> >> Emphasis on collaboration stability, but we would prefer not to have >> massive battery d

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> Looking for the happy middle ground that doesn't interfere with >> collaboration. > > Emphasis on collaboration stability, but we would prefer not to have > massive battery drain while doing so. We understand that there are > trade-offs.