1.5 power management, input events, wakeup events

[Chris Ball]

Hi,

   > And we will pay the performance cost of ACPI? It was an
   > oft-repeated thing that ACPI was evil because of complexity and
   > slowness in the critical path to super smooth sleep-resume
   > cycles.

   > Were we overestimating the impact?

Yes, I believe so.  We may even find that the slowness of some extra
indirection before making the same function call we would otherwise
make is not actually measurable.  We'll find out in a week or two.

The complexity of implementation is real, but it turned out that Mitch
had to do the work of adding ACPI tables for Windows anyway.  Being
able to suspend/resume on unmodified distro kernels (and not having to
constantly maintain and forward-port "the OLPC suspend/resume patch"
every release) will be a big win, worth some hours of our time in
setting up ACPI.

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>