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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:22:15 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend
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 On Mon 2009-02-16 23:23:30, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:19:38AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > This, again, seems to be a bit x86-centric. :-)  The Android people are telling
> > us that on the hardware they deal with it does make sense to put the entire
> > system to sleep even for relatively short periods of time, since the latencies
> > involved are not too bad.
> 
> Arve said that the power state was equivalent in idle and suspend, but 

...for Arve's hardware. Not all embedded systems are like that, and
OLPC / PCs are definitely not like that.

								Pavel

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