>>>>> "mwl" == M Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:

   mwl> My mp780's backlight goes out and other power things are shut
   mwl> down.  The suspend/resume stuff is very model specific.  You
   mwl> are right that it doesn't put things into the lowest CPU mode,
   mwl> but that requires new ROMs...

I could give a fuck about these microamp CPU shutdown modes with which
everyone seems so obsessed, but with my MobilePro 800, the screen
backlight stayed on, and often on suspend the microdrive would do one
of its pointless-fantom-spinups, and then just stay spinning for the
duration of the suspend.  the usual ridiculous 5-second microdrive
spindown timer would not work.  Because of these ``rough edges,''
suspend actually caused it to use _more_ power.

anyway i think all this suspend stuff is kind of a dead-end.  People
want it now, but I think it's becoming less interesting.  Already I
think none of the hpcmips suspend stuff can accomodate Florian's
initial query for an appointment-reminder, right?  because none of it
has even the minimal smarts to wake up at a specific wall time?  For
the future, the focus should be on power-saving stuff, like celfones,
so the machine can retain its intelligence, ability to execute code,
respond to its environment and the network, but the battery can last a
day or two.

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