On 1/16/06, Igor Stoppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:21 +0200, ext Weinehall David (Nokia-M/Tampere) > wrote: > > > > A mechanism for wake-up from power-off exists (yes, it's a bit sucky, > > so we'll have to have a workaround for alarms >24h into the future, > > but at least it's possible) -- check > > > > Power management efficient enough to make suspend meaningless -- check > > > > I cannot really understand why a lot of people here seem to want > > crippled functionality just because other platforms have limitations. > > I understand that if we want to have a consistent crossdevice platform, > then it should be able to deal with other hw that doesn't have as many > power management features as Omap, but that is not really a good reason > to discard what we _do_ have. > > Suspend is good compared to poweroff because it can retain the state of > the device and usually trim down startup/shutdown times, but it's > useless if the device actually manages to transparently and silently > save energy.
I agree. There is the issue of API -- that is where cross-platform comes in. Designing a good API for this IMO would take the ALSA approach; the API should have sane defaults and the library sane default configurations to make simpler hardware work w/ minimal effort, but don't dumb down the interface or implementation to the point where more advanced hardware can't be fully exploited. Dave _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
