On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:02 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote: > On Dienstag, 27. März 2007, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 12:43 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote: > > > You can't say clearly IIRC if something get saved to RAM, because this > > > get normaly handled by the bios and depend on the bios implementation. I > > > have seen machines which show the same behavior on Standby as on > > > suspend-to-ram. > > > > Sure, but what I've described is the common case, no? > > IIRC there is no common case. At least everything is in RAM in the most > cases, > because the processes on the machines get not really stopped. The point is > you can't never say what S1 do. I don't know atm if there general description > for S1. > > Maybe this would be a better description: > > "Standby is the action where the CPU is held in a low power state, the > display > get shut down but no data is saved to hard disk. The behavior of Standby > depends on your bios and hardware. It normally takes a a split second to > standby and resume. You cannot remove the battery when on laptop power or > work will be lost."
I've added something like this, thanks. > > > > Standard Nomenclature > > > > This section describes the standard nomenclature that should be used by > > > > programmers when implementing the Power Management Specification. > > > > > > > > Standby > > > > > > If you provide information about Standby, why are there no functions on > > > the interface to call Standby (Standby/CanStandby/CanStandbyChanged/)? I > > > know HAL don't provide a interface by default, but there are (maybe old) > > > machines which support no suspend-to-ram but work with Standby. > > > > Valid point. Either we can add the standby stuff to the spec, or I can > > drop the standby description. kpowersaved uses standby doesn't it? > > KPowersave provide Standby trigger (if supported by the system and HAL ... > see > my patch for HAL on the ML) and there are user which use it as bugreports > show. Sure. I'll add it to the spec for completeness if you want. For stuff like gnome-power-manager it will be a stub, unless the HAL stuff gets upstream. Richard. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
