Power Management

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:29 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > This is way too laid-back.  We should be suspending and letting the DCON
> > refresh the display within a few seconds of going idle.  A minute is
> > really a long time.
> 
> let me clarify here; this is somewhat activity dependent.  Ebook, Web,
> Abiword, and text Chat are great cases for very aggressive suspend.  But
> of course games are likely not.  The sugar shell itself may also have
> different heuristics.

Sure, so we need a way to convey state and application to the power
manager. Maybe just setting a auto_suspend.mode key, with AGGRESSIVE,
IDLE, and NEVER values?

> We will have Wake On LAN functionality too so that, for example, if
> we're chatting with somebody, we can suspend the CPU and do DCON refresh
> when idle, and then get woken up when the other person sends an IM.

That's pretty cool.

Richard.