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On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:09:48 +0200 Alan McKinnon |
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<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 10 January 2010 23:40:57 Stroller wrote: |
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> > This was my reaction, too, but c'mon, Linux's sleep functionality |
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> > must have a rewake feature, mustn't it? |
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> I dunno. Think about this - in suspend, nothing is working and no |
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> user-code is running. The only power consumed is what is needed to |
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> refresh RAM. That must be there otherwise the content goes away if |
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> you try and resume. |
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> So what part of the machine is powered to be able to wake it up? PCs |
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> don't have alarm clocks, the on-board clock can't usually do it, so |
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> the only option is for some code to be running, polling the time and |
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> cause the system to wake up. Which is exactly what suspend does not |
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> do. |
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Windows can do that and BIOS has such settings too. Those are |
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power management settings like "suspend to RAM after X minutes", |
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"hibernate after Y minutes". In order to hibernate it has to wake up |
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first, so there must be some place where a timer is set. |
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And I have seen it done on Linux. I just never tried it myself. |
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Cheers, |
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Renat |
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Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, |
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durch die sie entstanden sind. |
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(Einstein) |