From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755696AbYFCRfh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:35:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755993AbYFCRfK (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:35:10 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2823 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754881AbYFCRfI (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:35:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:12:44 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Rick van Rein Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Future Linux on Bistable Storage Message-ID: <20080603161244.GA4177@ucw.cz> References: <20080602125904.GA15129@phantom.vanrein.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080602125904.GA15129@phantom.vanrein.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > But in the end I expect the entire system to switch itself off in between > every two keystrokes (!) simply because loosing no data anywhere in the > system means being able to resume operations at the next whim/interrupt. Some of todays devices are designed to sleep between keystrokes, including cellphones and olpc notebook. It is doable in todays hardware... and my sleepy linux patches aim to do something like that. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html