From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:40:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20100804214031.GD5864__28857.3437174366$1280958508$gmane$org@sirena.org.uk> References: <20100801191228.GL2470@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100801154708.19817b75@infradead.org> <20100802011006.GS2470@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100803183447.0275c134@infradead.org> <20100804163216.GB24163@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100804163509.GA31523@srcf.ucam.org> <20100804204208.GA21452@elf.ucw.cz> <20100804205159.GH24163@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100804211513.GC21452@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100804211513.GC21452@elf.ucw.cz> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: peterz@infradead.org, swetland@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, florian@mickler.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , tglx@linutronix.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Arjan van de Ven List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:15:13PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > In different message, Arve said they are actually using low-power idle > > > to emulate suspend on Android. > > Could you please point me at this message? > AFAICT, this tells us that idle and suspend is the same hardware state > on current Android hardware: This is all massively system dependant. On some systems when the system is in the same idle state in the lowest power idle mode as in suspend however as a result of not doing the suspend (which causes Linux to quiesce most of the hardware) many more things will be able to generate wake events. On other systems you will achieve a lower power state by using suspend for various reasons, some fixable and some not. I rather suspect Arve was talking about the former case.