power management

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:49:42PM -0500, Gopi Palaniappan wrote:
> 6. Is there a need for periodic wakeup? on mobile devices its required to
> wakeup almost every minute to update clock display, battery level, rf
> levels.it makes sense to sync up all these activities during the wakeup
> period.I am not sure if a laptop has such a requirement..

On other mobile devices, the customer might already be trained to expect 
periodic updates. I suggest, however, that OLPC not make this mistake. 
Any periodic CPU wakeup should be done at most once every 5 minutes and 
perhaps not at all.